Gab set up that account when it started. They should have every damn tweet that twitter nuked. They made it in the hope that someday President Trump would move there from Twitter. They had a bot that scraped twitter.
Add to that GPT-3 text generation. They can and do make bots that can comment and generate English that is so realistic there is no way to tell if it's a real user or not unless you interact closely with them. That's how they're jamming 4chan with spam. Drowning useful discussions and investigations. They can use the same bots on Twitter, giving you the impression that there are millions of people agreeing with Pelosi. So we need a way of verifying humans, but then no one reasonable wants to upload their photo IDs. Having people make videos is probably the best option as deepfakes are still expensive and not realistic enough.
Gab set up that account when it started. They should have every damn tweet that twitter nuked. They made it in the hope that someday President Trump would move there from Twitter. They had a bot that scraped twitter.
This is how Information War has been conducted for decades. It’s called a Twitter Influence Operation:
Machine Learning (ML) for hot button words for sentiment analysis.
Long running Twitter accounts reflag as supporting causes from #1.
Tweet from #3 to automated bot accounts which retweet and amplify.
Real users pickup ML words and act.
Plant agitators in crowd is real people from #4.
There’s plenty of papers on it and how we launched the Arab Spring etc. it’s also the playbook used in Ukraine.
Add to that GPT-3 text generation. They can and do make bots that can comment and generate English that is so realistic there is no way to tell if it's a real user or not unless you interact closely with them. That's how they're jamming 4chan with spam. Drowning useful discussions and investigations. They can use the same bots on Twitter, giving you the impression that there are millions of people agreeing with Pelosi. So we need a way of verifying humans, but then no one reasonable wants to upload their photo IDs. Having people make videos is probably the best option as deepfakes are still expensive and not realistic enough.