[akoboldfrying]

That was my first thought too -- but then why would the bot company care about a few false positives?

I suppose it could have an impact if 30% of all, say, Coca Cola mentions on the web came from that site, but then it would have to be a very big site. I don't think the bot company would notice, let alone care, if it was 0.01% of the mentions.

[rvba]

They dont want to feed their model with garbage data, or this data is read and revieved by real humans

I remember years-ago (2008?) I worked in a company where every mention of it was manually reviewed by someone from PR department. I imagine now the tools are even better.

Different thing is that discussion is often very low quality (forums died for multiple reasons, reddit is dying too - astro-turf gallore now)

[simondotau]

Everyone’s definition of “big” is different, but back then it was big enough to get its own little island in a far corner of XKCD 802.

https://xkcd.com/802/

[dotancohen]

Diaspora?