i remember they used to steal comments from real people.
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2025
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Your post is very fascinatingly infuriating and very creatively mildly. Thoughts and Prayers
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I wonder if it would be possible to plant an instruction bomb somewhere on the page which would trip up LLM-powered bots. I dunno how much of the page they take in.
If you have a personal web-page or blog, you can easily poison your content just my making white text on white background or something, containing an assortment of prompts and nonsense.
But that's only for the current models of LLM, next gen might easily bypass those kinds of tricks. We're cooked, yo.
I am so grateful for this post! You always post such interesting content. π¦βΉοΈββοΈπ·
I think I'm blessed if not I wouldn't have met Swirvel Handgwendt. She is a spectacular financial expert and saved me thousands every month! π²π΅π€π
I literally just saw a thread of these comments on a video. It was like 100 comments deep as well.
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What's the point of these three random emoji?
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Makes the comments stick out more, increases the chance someone clicks the profile
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It can't even count them properly.
How to kill a dead internet...
Vaguely encouraging spambots.
It's morbidly amusing that spammers all use the same service, the same way (the cheapest OpenAI API, I guess? Which is notorious for this style.)
And a silver lining. I could finetune a dirt cheap open model as a SEO/Engagement bot with very different styles, but 'spammer culture' seems to mass around the most popular denomenators when they find one. With such uniformity, I could also train a mediocre detector, based on overused tokens and something similar to the 'slop profiles' of EQ-Bench: https://eqbench.com/creative_writing.html
(This is based on a storywriting prompt, but social media 'vocabulary' could be profiled the same way).
In other words, its fortunate the spambots are such overpriced junk when they could easily not be.
In other words, its fortunate the spambots are such overpriced junk when they could easily not be.
The ones you notice are overpriced junk. I'm convinced that this is on purpose, to make us less suspicious of the more convincing bots
I dunno if it's on purpose, but you make a good point.
How long until the Internet is so full of bots and AI spam that it becomes impossible to even find our fellow humans amid the noise?
For most? We're already there, fellow human. ππ π§
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You know they're fake because real YouTube commentors only have two modes:
"Who's watching in 2025" and "No one: Not a single soul:"
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Great content! Your posts are always <pick 2: neat, informative, or creative>!
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And this is because it works. Horny men see the minuscule thumbnail: "OMG it's a hot woman!", then click it, see the link in the profile, and get scammed.
Kind of amazing that it both still works and Youtube refuses to remove it to fake their engagement numbers.
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I noticed a pattern. So many comments have that same emoji spam pattern, even if they seem different. Something seemed off for a while now.
The random middle finger in the 4th one is sending me lmao
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One day openai will drop a new model that uses fewer emojis, affecting a billion comments sections all over the internet
The worst is when you see a low sub count channel owner respond with the sincerest gratitude, like it really made their day to get such a supportive comment. I never have the heart to tell them, but I do try to leave an actual supportive comment of my own to sort of balance it out
Oh wow, I was like "interesting, haven't seen these" seeing the three emojis and stuff on yours
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To test the theory, I (a car nut) went to one of the biggest automotive YouTubers, Mat Armstrong, who's currently rebuilding his dad's dream car and released the last video 2 days ago.
Two comments, different profile, same profile pic that, zoomed out enough, looks like a vagina. Go on the profile and they both look like this:
Edit: spoiler tag wasn't working for everyone. Long story short, they linked another channel with a bottomless lady for the thumbnail
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Fascinated by your creativity! π¦ππ
Am I the only one who has assumed any account using the format "Firstname LastName" since the early 2000's is a bot, because real people generally make creative usernames?
I know it doesn't exactly work in the age of Twitter, where so many people were never taught basic online safety guidelines, which included NOT USING YOUR REAL GOD DAMN NAME, but old habits die hard.
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Thanks for making such a great post! Your content is always insightful and funny, keep it up! πππ₯΅
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