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Against Astroturfing and Social Media Manipulation
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Pointing out, fighting, spreading awareness about State sponsored and Company sponsored astroturfing on Lemmy and elsewhere. This includes social media manipulation, propaganda, and disinformation campaigns, among others.
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I agree with yggstyle here, trying to silence your opponents is bad form and can quickly snow ball into fascism.
You just need to counter bots with your bots. We have AI now for Christ sake, it’s really not that hard to train ‘em, deploy ‘em, and manage ‘em
Edit: Santa’s coming to town mfers
https://blog.replit.com/llm-training
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38759877
https://medium.com/intel-analytics-software/create-your-own-chatbot-on-cpus-b8d186cfefb2
Now for creating bot farms, you’re going to need to sail those waters yourself, as they’re often against TOS/UAs, but I don’t think you’ll have to look too hard
Edit: Republicans didn’t like the idea of fighting back ig
It's a bit unclear how any of what you're proposing is supposed to help
Problem: community is being flooded with content A which is diametrically opposed to a content B
Solution: flood content B
… your solution to spam is more spam?
When getting the original spam taken down isn’t going to happen?
Absolutely, yes. Businesses respond to big problems and monetary problems, this is how you effect change.
Well, I do understand your logic at least even though I'm not exactly convinced about the mechanics.
Edit: non-native English speaker here, halp, "convinced about" or "convinced of"?
And i want to clarify I’m not saying spam shit posts, but spamming actual information, articles and actual good content is precisely an equivalent fight to combat flooding propaganda, and a pretty benign one at that when you look at more extreme gorilla tactics
I think “convinced of” is more correct, but both phrases work. Could also say “convinced on”.
Ah I somehow had the impression that there was some sort of subtle difference between convinced of/about. Thanks