This is very relatable. Even in some games, the botting population is well over 50%. In older games like Ragnarok Online, botting was close or above 70% of the total users in the game. Those bots were gaining experience, farming items and currency 24/7 while fighting monsters and navigating terrain without supervision.
Making cheap bots to follow, retweet and make random comments based on the topic is a walk in the park. These bots are also most likely owned by 3rd parties so that Twitter can claim it wasn't them.
Also, wasn't it admitted in a book (Platform Revolution) that Alibaba was initially just the owners burning capital to buy out the first few merchants to make people think it was a profitable platform? It's all the same trick. Nothing ever changes.
Now give the bots the ability to inject talking points and you get a massive platform designed to slowly slide people's opinions into one that isn't their own.
Is it still "white" hat when peoples opinions are being manipulated "for their own good".
Best thing a true white hat could do is shut the entire propaganda system down, people will be scared because they will have to start thinking on their own, but eventually they will think.
Yes, it is pretty well understood at the beginning, Bots are necessary because if not, you would have the empty universe problem. I would assume ALL platforms, especially those of social media, have bots to illustrate a good user population.
Twitter just didn't get rid of theirs when the platform hit the tipping point. Now they are fucked.
This is very relatable. Even in some games, the botting population is well over 50%. In older games like Ragnarok Online, botting was close or above 70% of the total users in the game. Those bots were gaining experience, farming items and currency 24/7 while fighting monsters and navigating terrain without supervision.
Making cheap bots to follow, retweet and make random comments based on the topic is a walk in the park. These bots are also most likely owned by 3rd parties so that Twitter can claim it wasn't them.
Also, wasn't it admitted in a book (Platform Revolution) that Alibaba was initially just the owners burning capital to buy out the first few merchants to make people think it was a profitable platform? It's all the same trick. Nothing ever changes.
Now give the bots the ability to inject talking points and you get a massive platform designed to slowly slide people's opinions into one that isn't their own.
congrats. you are here.
Is it still "white" hat when peoples opinions are being manipulated "for their own good".
Best thing a true white hat could do is shut the entire propaganda system down, people will be scared because they will have to start thinking on their own, but eventually they will think.
OVERTON WINDOW BOT 3.65
You fren, may be more useful then you know. Most of us are not aware of this sort of info. Ty
Yes, it is pretty well understood at the beginning, Bots are necessary because if not, you would have the empty universe problem. I would assume ALL platforms, especially those of social media, have bots to illustrate a good user population.
Twitter just didn't get rid of theirs when the platform hit the tipping point. Now they are fucked.
The bots were supposedly from google/darpa according to the Q drops.
Along the lines of alibaba, Amazon is not profitable yet continue to decimate small businesses.
Literally ran off of investor money with no endgame. It's like playing an online game against somebody using cheats