I mean, before LLMs there were people trying to do the mass influence thing… but the only entities that could be effective were the ones that could hire a few hundred people to shitpost in the same direction.
Now any nerd with a graphics card and a python interpreter can operate hundreds of accounts. Large operations are probably creating multiple synthetic high ‘subscriber’ subreddits or buying mod accounts on large subreddits.
russian troll farms can just create large amounts of bot accounts, have them comment and then it either gets deleted or ban, rinse and repeat. since t hey can change thier IP, or device anyways, you cant really stop a troll farm, they are probably using the same methods as the of and link farming accounts to hide thier accounts from being tied altogether, but they dont care about warming up the accounts. just post -delete or ban account repeat again.
They’re about a decade and a half out of date.
I mean, before LLMs there were people trying to do the mass influence thing… but the only entities that could be effective were the ones that could hire a few hundred people to shitpost in the same direction.
Now any nerd with a graphics card and a python interpreter can operate hundreds of accounts. Large operations are probably creating multiple synthetic high ‘subscriber’ subreddits or buying mod accounts on large subreddits.
russian troll farms can just create large amounts of bot accounts, have them comment and then it either gets deleted or ban, rinse and repeat. since t hey can change thier IP, or device anyways, you cant really stop a troll farm, they are probably using the same methods as the of and link farming accounts to hide thier accounts from being tied altogether, but they dont care about warming up the accounts. just post -delete or ban account repeat again.