Bsky is being flooded with German speaking AI powered bots.
A thread on why this is important, ultimately making all social media is unusable. #deutschland #trolls #AI #election
1/ What happened? All these responses to a @zeit.de post have something in common (spoiler: they are not real):
A thread on why this is important, ultimately making all social media is unusable. #deutschland #trolls #AI #election
1/ What happened? All these responses to a @zeit.de post have something in common (spoiler: they are not real):
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https://bsky.app/profile/d-le-nen.bsky.social/post/3lcnaxlbf622e
#BlueSky is for people 🤩
https://bsky.app/profile/pzwalker.bsky.social/post/3lcpseladmc24
It is up to the BlueSky devs to find a way to stop bot infiltration permanently on this site. We can’t do this with the limited tools we have been given as users.
A real German living in Vienna, Austria ... 🇦🇹
I’d subscribe to get a clean feed.
They might still rely on us for reporting suspicious activities though.
Erst vorsichtig verschiedene sichten einfordern, dann rechtsdrall. Da wette ich drauf...
https://bsky.app/profile/hrldcgn.bsky.social/post/3lcqv42ttzs2p
Es gibt eben KEINE BLINDE GEFOLGSCHAFT für irgendwelche Idole.
#nothunberg
so hatte ich das verstanden.
Und im Blauen Himmel sollte wir sowoeso alle blocken, die "mit allen diskutieren" wollen und uns diesen Schwachsinn immer wieder unter die Nase reiben. Eigentlich.
https://pdsls.dev/vanillasky.click
Still: they will pop up again elsewhere, good to be watchful!
Wir können uns frisch machen. 😫
Muss bei Gelegenheit mal meine Follower dahingehend durchgehen.
These replies cannot be from anything but a bot for one simple reason... no one in Germany/Austria/Switz actually speaks, or writes, like that. No one. There are zero errors, no regional words, no colloquialisms, no grammatical mistakes.
Apart from that, the opinions are shit.
if you can pay 100 humans then it’s 10000 and the hourly rate is below 1$ in some regions
Definitely they should act, but unlikely it’s a single thing done once rather many measures that need to be done everyday and not quickly described in one skeet.
Nur mal eine rein technische Frage: Sind diese Bots denn auch in der Lage, mit anderen Usern zu interagieren, oder können die nur Meinungen posten?
Rein technisch dürfte das aber Möglich sein. Fliegt aber ggf. schneller auf, wenn die Antworten weniger Sinn machen.
Das Hauptproblem ist, das die mit der Zeit besser werden könnten.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xl26w4fh6k3un5ploykbcun6/lists/3lcpr4s65xv2u
BLOCKED.
This account comes from https://vanillasky.click. Please keep an eye on it
Oder anders: offensichtlich nichts automatisch und Blocklist-scam ..
Echt etwas nervig zur zeit
Während sie leichte Grammatikfehler aufweisen sind sie wenigstens sehr höflich.
Wenn das noch mehr machen, schaut Bluesky sich das sicher an!
Fürchte sie haben damit recht.
Sie steigert sich da ja richtig rein.... 🤣
Aber man sollte den Bots wenigstens beibringen, unter einem Post nicht mehr als 2-3 mal zu kommentieren.
https://youtu.be/rpOkrxxpTcE?si=2Xub1urTOj9wh1Aq
Suche nach vanillasky(Punkt)click in Personen...
Just kidding. Danke für die Recherche und Aufklärung.
Zufall? Ich denke nicht 🤔
never did i do that
All responses have a similar style (textbook-like, neutrally written) and do not really respond to the article. Instead they just use generic phrases, while also somewhat being adjusted to the post.
All accounts only reply / have similar bio's.
For the people that don't speak German, the final sentences read:
Always ready for new challenges!
Looking for new Inspirations!
Looking for new Horizons!
All have profile pictures and banners which align with the first word from their profile description (wave lover, hiking guy, etc.) The pictures are likely AI generated based on the profile text, to increase authenticity!
#LLM #AI #bots
Just kidding. Thank you for your research.
Each account posts only under German news articles (e.g. @spiegel.de). But here is the catch: its not the usual strong conspiracies or fake news. All posts rather neutral. My guess is that the goal is to first generate followers...
Be careful who you follow, as your followers might assume that they might trust the profiles you follow.
Block bots and trolls- I didn‘t know, these type of bots .
Seid vorsichtig, wem ihr folgt, denn eure Follower könnten annehmen, dass sie den Profilen, denen ihr folgt, vertrauen könnten.
Blockiert Bots und Trolle - ich kannte dies Bot-Art nicht
.vanillasky.click
While this is largely speculation, one should consider that Germany holds elections soon! By growing reach now, such an AI network will then be able to significantly steer what people see on Bsky! See #romania.
With gen. AI posts bot networks can act in any language. They also have a simple understanding of the posts they reply to, making them much more authentic! Bear in mind, that this is probably a crude example. More advanced networks may not be spotted.
2/3 der replies zu euren letzten Posts sind von Bots.
(Do you have any ideas how to stop these bots from hijacking your posts)? 2/3 of replies are bots)
Russland ist pleite.