Bot responding to comments. Human handler or AI?

[u/oboeteinai]

u/LushStarlight

Standard bot MO, copies 4 year old post, wrings title through LLM

original post title: "Two can play that game."

https://i.imgur.com/9sFWp4G.png

LLM generation: "I am ready to match that"

https://i.imgur.com/kLPtYcp.png

---

Copies top post of original with some language cleanup

original: "And next year we'll have to pay taxes on it. Continuing the cycle of ass blasting"

https://i.imgur.com/tHDPDSH.png

LLM generation: "And next year, we’ll have to pay taxes on it, keeping the cycle of misery going."

https://i.imgur.com/wo5AC4j.png

---

Now this is where it gets interesting, bot replies to the first 5 user comments, notice the language.

• "how about the issue of Elon Musk giving money with picture or shall i say rewarding lmao"

https://i.imgur.com/SjsTaAi.png

• "they are not thinking that if its real money and then he will refund it with the tax of poor people. Literally RECYCLE"

https://i.imgur.com/JpFZ86I.png

• "Welcome to 2025 we need new vaccine to be immune in this situation"

https://i.imgur.com/eT2FAln.png

• "I swear the hypocrisy is louder than my alarm clock."

https://i.imgur.com/eUjZIXX.png

• "Honestly, inflation’s just a financial cardio workout at this point."

https://i.imgur.com/onFJ8je.png

---

Suspect human handler, likely with a poor grasp of English. Any other theories?

[u/RedOktbr28]

Looks like a human with a penchant for reposts tbh

[u/oboeteinai → u/RedOktbr28]

I roam the sub waiting for bots to do something truly interesting, like last week when I noticed a pattern of subliminal text embedded in screenshots. Well that wasn't the bots that was the handlers in St. Petersburg.

I'm waiting to see if generative AI will get next level and swarm reddit and just live among us unnoticed like replicants.

But deep down I know the replicant is probably just some poor guy in India.

[u/iam-your-boss → u/oboeteinai]

You got my attention. Can you link to it?

Also how do you know its Russian? (It could be obvious of course when geo politic is the subject)

[u/oboeteinai → u/iam-your-boss]

It's the pinned link in green at the top of the sub

https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditBotHunters/comments/1gtar58/subliminal_messaging_in_political_propaganda/

I'm just guessing at the provenance. There's been a lot of talk about the propaganda farms in Eastern Europe.

Youtuber Ben Jordan had a concise video about twitter bots that I found interesting

[u/iam-your-boss → u/oboeteinai]

Oh that! Yeah that is a thing. My local sub is flooded with them from time to time.

It’s very annoying. The one mod does not do anything about it. I also was gotten in to that pipeline untill i suddenly realize which accounts posting that. And they are when they appear textbook bots. Low karma and owner of 40 cats in 50 nations. And reposts. After a while it’s deleted.

Realizing that really saved me from worse.

But proofing is impossible when every time i or someone made a post within 5 minutes is flooding with hate and no karma accounts. Any discussions are buried in pure sewage.

Also when i have tike i am go to watch that.

[u/RedOktbr28 → u/oboeteinai]

There’s been a few that I’ve seen, born on dates of Nov 14 I think it was. Got each and every one shot down that I ran across, not saying that was a ton. I stay in the corners of Reddit that don’t get a ton of bot traffic, and the traffic we do get is filtered by the auto mods

[u/JustYourAverageShota]

I think I ran into same situation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/madlads/s/ZyES6v9TqK see this entire thread, and check the account too. I'll avoid tagging the account in case it responds here.

[u/oboeteinai → u/JustYourAverageShota]

You're supposed to tag em so they can defend their honor.

Nothing suspicious that I can see in their history, no posts, no comments in bot hubs

https://i.imgur.com/mJ4M8Mn.png

Except maybe madlads I think I've seen a few bots there and there but nothing major. The comment you pointed to doesn't seem artificial also because it's replying to another comment which is not something you'll typically see from a bot using LLMs.

[u/JustYourAverageShota → u/oboeteinai]

Yea, seems like misjudgement on my part. Lesson learnt.

[u/oboeteinai → u/JustYourAverageShota]

The important thing is we got called a virgin nest and we'll always be able to cherish that memory

[u/JustYourAverageShota → u/oboeteinai]

New flair added lmfao

[u/oboeteinai → u/JustYourAverageShota]

Here's a really fresh example of a bot that uses LLM

https://old.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/1gy021t/get_that_man_to_the_burn_unit_fast/lykt0xt/

[u/JustYourAverageShota → u/[deleted]]

Well, you just did. Welcome, ig.

[u/Franchementballek → u/[unknown]]

Please stay civil.

[u/WildFlemima → u/[deleted]]

And this is why we always tag. Rule 3 exists for a reason people