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Thursday, October 03, 2024

Malicious bots can distort the truth, scam people out of money, and invade your privacy. Bots have been weaponized as a tool to manipulate foreign countries and their leadership as well as financial scammers in increasingly sophisticated ways.

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...Review Their Posts

While bots can mimic humans, they are always subject to their programing and looking over their posts may show you patterns in that programming.

- - - Tunnel Vision: Bots are created for a purpose. This could make them seemingly obsessed with a particular topic by repeating a link too much.

- - - Temporal Behavior: Too many posts in too short of a time, posts that are too consistent. If an account posts at unlikely times or even too regularly, it can be an indicator that it's fake.

- - - Look at comments: Review comments to see if there are scam links or suspicious replies to note.
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#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-03 12:43 AM | Reply

Another view ...

The Chatbot Experience: 5 Ways to Know If You're Chatting with a Human or Robot
www.convinceandconvert.com

... The use and utility of online chat and chatbots, powered by improving levels of AI like ChatGPT, are increasing rapidly. There's been a spike in AI tools, not just within chat bots. We're seeing an expansive into email content, copy writing, blogging, and more.

We've developed five techniques for determining if you're dealing with a real person or an AI/chatbot. Spoiler alert: the more you experiment with these, the faster the chatbots will learn and adapt. ...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-03 12:46 AM | Reply

@#2 ... Spoiler alert: the more you experiment with these, the faster the chatbots will learn and adapt. ...

yeah.

So, this thread is likely to be self-defeating.


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-03 12:47 AM | Reply

Art of Noise - Peter Gunn (Extended Version) (feat. Duane Eddy) (1986)
www.youtube.com

(a cool instrumental, so no lyrics...)

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-03 12:53 AM | Reply

So goatmam was a bot?

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2024-10-03 05:28 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

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