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by mmooss 148 days ago
> In social media, general consensus is owned by those that control the best and most bots to direct the conversation.

Isn't it owned by the owner of the social media platform? Do you think Zuckerberg, Musk, etc are neutral? There is an enormous amount of evidence otherwise.

If some bots proliferate, it's because the owners allow those bots to do so.
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Nasrudith 147 days ago
Listen, if they actually had the ability to detect bots perfectly just from owning a big tech company, then we wouldn't need spam filters. Perfect bot detection would be a very valuable product. It is one thing to hold responsibility to those with power, it is another to ask the literally impossible of them.
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mmooss 147 days ago
> Perfect bot detection

Detection doesn't have to be anywhere near perfect to be effective, though I expect that they can do it pretty well at this point. Remember they have visibility into far more than users do.

> we wouldn't need spam filters

? Spam filters rely on spam detection, and do a sufficient job.

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pixl97 148 days ago
>Do you think Zuckerberg, Musk, etc are neutral?

I mean, why wouldn't they have the most bots?

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