The Dark "Truth" About Bots

 Two years ago I did this love song to social media:

And yes, it isn't really a love song, but a criticism of Social Media.  I have a low profile on Social Media. Few followers, and mostly just post the music and cartoons I have just completed, which only two or three acquaintances will bother to look at, or listen too. See it mostly as something to look at when you don't have anything at all worthwhile to do instead.  

The bots on Twitter were terrible 2 years ago. Mulusk then bought it, made it X and made the bot problem a billion times worse.  All on purpose by the look of it. 

Benn says in his video here, anything about Social Media bots ends up looking like a conspiracy theory itself, confusing what is "Truth" itself.  Watch this for yourself:

It all seems consistent.  Is it "a war on truth"?  

Myself, as a non American, not living in America, it seems unbelievable that Americans could make a Stupid, Rapist, Racist, Lying Crook, their president. But if Americans, like Russia before it, cannot see "Truth" any more, then that is an explanation as to how it happened.   

This time line of X giving AI Bots access and making truth difficult to discern is particularly interesting with relation to the recent US Election date.

And that in January the prompts driving the bot accounts violated OpenAI's T&Cs, causing them to on mass apologize. Funny if not so terrifying. 

The very brief look up I did on Vladislav Surkov did not show the paper Benn shows in his video. Maybe something for some other time. I really don't care at the moment.

I haven't deleted my X account, mainly as that is the place to get news on what Urasawa Naoki is up too, and on Japanese Art Exhibitions. I am on BlueSky, finding it much nicer, but what I do isn't what the masses follow anyway, and I am not going to change that.  

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