Algorithms. The information war is fought on a battlefield of so much data that AI and algorithms are relied upon by all parties to stay above water.
Algorithms are just a set of instructions which can be executed through formulas or stringers like the ones Q revealed.
These stringers and formulas must have their values defined before they can be executed. But when the value is undefined, it's a variable written as X.
So when blackhat AI tries to execute an algorithmic attack against Twitter like a bot campaign or internal sabotage, it fails because it cannot define the target value. Its template formula already uses X as a variable, so how can it recognize a target called X? This creates a blind spot for any AI using universal algebraic rules.
Let me know your thoughts, especially you math or programming nerds.
Programmer here. I don't see how naming a company "X" will break bot code. The name of the company would simply be the value of a string that I could store in a variable of any name.
For example, if I wanted to target multiple companies, I could store the company names in an array, loop through them and execute the attack for each of them.
My guess is, if the code has been deployed to a myriad places under different cover, and the code is not easily redeployable, then changing the site name can be a way to get rid of these final set of bots.
Think bot nets that have been used to run algos. Assuming the bot net itself has been taken control of, but the malicious algos still running on the machines are not orphaned and will keep running their algos against "twitter.com", with no way to stop it unless the owner of the machine reinstalls their computer.
This could be a legitimate case where changing the company name might be useful. Of course, it means that "twitter.com" needs ot be completely retired.
However, on the other hand, the same could have been achieved by changing the fomatting of the tweets.
Latent bots had crossed my mind too, but like you said, the twitter.com URL hasn't changed.