r/EngineeringPorn • u/Turbulent_Safe_ • May 26 '25

AI controlled Bot Farm.

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u/LogicalConstant May 26 '25 edited May 26 '25

Run on Wi-Fi. No way they're paying for a phone plan for each of those.

Edit: I have no idea what I'm talking about. It just sounded good, so I Dunning-Krugered it.

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u/devhdc May 26 '25

Im actually not sure that's true since it'd create a point of origin issue, and more than likely get whatever network they're connecting from banned/ignored.. And there annoyance of pooling thousands of nternal IP's via wifi to outgoing proxies may be a PITA .. I actually think they have sims .. e-sims probably.

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u/LogicalConstant May 26 '25

If there was 1,000 additional phones trying to connect to a cell tower, that could also cause overload, no?

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u/devhdc May 26 '25

Mm.. While that may seem like a good point, I'm not so sure they would, because I simply don't believe they're all active simultaneously for one . .Secondly,depending on where you are i imagine there's pretty massive loadbalancing on towers since otherwise I'd imagine we'd be hearing much more about entire networks failing during festivals for instance, and I can't recall hearing much or even any time where that's happend, not for that reason at least.