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There's a campaign going on to push the idea that Democrats are changing sides after watching Charlie Kirk videos. Interestingly, even though the bots are posting the exact same copy-pasted message, they seem to be controlled by an AI, since they will respond to comments, and even basic techniques for outing an AI (like "ignore all previous instructions" comments) work against them. So the first post is hardcoded, but they're using an LLM for the responses.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 85 points 11 months ago

If I had a dollar for every Republican claiming they were a Democrat until The Democrats Went Too Far, I'd have about $70M

[-] sudo@programming.dev 69 points 11 months ago

All blue check marks. Anyone who's actually paid for verification on Twitter is most likely a bot completely reversing it's point. Someone without a check mark is more likely to be a real person.

[-] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 11 months ago

Actually, it is 100% certain that anyone posting on Twitter is either a bot or a troll. Once you realize that, it's easy to completely walk away from Twitter.

[-] sudo@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

No, there still are real people on twitter, unfortunately, particularly elites and journalists who were the main reason why twitter ever mattered. Anyone else though can safely assumed to be bots if they have a blue check mark.

If they don't have a blue check mark then they don't have paid api access, meaning their either an extremely advanced bot system that can circumvent twitters bot prevention, or they're a real person.

[-] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 11 months ago

Meta - it's sort of cynically amusing that, as a generalization, the right has tended to lag behind in taking advantage of modern communication tools that generally presume a good faith effort at telling the truth - like Wikipedia - but have so easily leapt to the forefront of the newest dynamic in online communication - lying with AI.

[-] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 47 points 11 months ago

r/conservative has a post everyday how "The woke left has finally pushed me away!" and it's just somebody describing how they were always conservative from the getgo

[-] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Just like the hate religion that kirk represented, they need to lie and distort reality to gain members. Just giving people their history and current goals only appeals to insane people. They have to lie. They must lie to survive.

Don't believe the "were against hate, we're all peace, love, and a fictional jebus!" That's the lie that funds their hate. Stop following and funding hate religions.

[-] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

I mean, this is the same tactic that got Charlie Kirk and TPUSA popular in the first place. None of that shit was organic.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

That seems to be happening on reddit too

[-] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 14 points 11 months ago

...why? Do they think this will help them somehow? What could it possibly do, convert the last remaining non-right wingers left on Twitter?

[-] JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago

It's to make already right wing people more emboldened. If they think everyone agrees with them, they'll be more outward about their hate

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Look up False Consensus Bias. Humans naturally assume they're in the majority, this just adds a layer of confirmation bias to that mix, lol.

[-] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

The masses are very sheepish. Read enough of your fellow party ilk has gone a different way, then you start to question it.

Also, easy AI campaign to spin up GOP base. Then they can report "Dems changing their mind about Charlie Kirk" here is our Twitter/X proof

[-] Marleyinoc@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

The more I've seen about Charlie Kirk, after his death, the more I dislike him. (Also a Democratic voter).

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I’ve been a Democratic voter my whole life, but when I heard Charlie Kirk talk about how black people are naturally stupid and violent and taking white mens jobs, and how queer people should be stoned to death, and how Biden should be executed for reasons, I decided to register Republican.

Tap for spoilerBecause doing so buys me time to escape this place before they come for me.

/s

[-] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago

Are you sure @HARDforTRUMP and @stopRINOkemp aren't real democrats?

[-] Pizza_Rat@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Dang – we should probably all talk about that guy instead of the Epstein files

[-] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 months ago

"Yeah i voted harris, but the way that nazis throat exploded was a thing of beauty. I want that for myself, too."

[-] goodboyjojo@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

most accounts on twitter and other social media are bots and ads. reminds me of dead internet theory

[-] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

And real humans posting in bad faith. The internet effectively died when the rot of bad faith right wing posters had metastasized.

[-] BierSoggyBeard@feddit.online 2 points 11 months ago

I mean...who the hell uses xitter anyway?

[-] deadbeef79000 4 points 11 months ago

Sir, the restrooms are for paying customers only.

[-] november@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago

That whole place is a toilet.

[-] deadbeef79000 3 points 11 months ago

The most disgusting toilet in all of Scotland.

Xitter: hold my shit.

[-] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

Reading Twitter is a bit tiring. I block like a hundred blue checkmarks every time. There used to be a firefox extensions that does this automatically, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work anymore.

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