An audience of bots
How would I feel if I found out 50% of my audience were bots? I think “dead internet” paranoia is rising. You see absolute drivel getting 18k likes. Is there really a hackable mass of midwits who really cannot spot the formulaic structures of LinkedIn brand vulnerability porn? Or, are there thousands of comment bots? I imagine there’s some secret Discord channel where a single man manages like 1,000 female accounts, scrambling IP addresses to go undetected, selling “boosting” for $50/month. Feels dirty. I also sense that this could just get easier and productized over time. It’s scary to think that GPT-5 or 6 might truly be indistinguishable, and it will just be a normal thing for each person to have bots on social making 50 valid posts per day.