Fascinating how many of your videos manage to get so many views but this one that speaks about something that will wake up so many and it only got 1600 views at this time.
Seems the general public is more into watching useless crap than learning useful things. "a 1$ car vs. a $1000000 car".. What a silly topic.. but it scores like a beast. I'd say: There is a much bigger audience for stupid nonesense than for informative posts. And the more specialized the publishers are, the audience is getting smaller and smaller. If Dee talked about assembler only, there would be just a few subscribers. Some channels i watched before pump out so many videos in a short time, that i decided not to watch them anymore. While the videos appear to be made by humans, it is close to impossible to do the research for a(ny) topic in such short time. For me that is a red flag. Also, when i never see a human speaking, in none of their videos, i am also sceptic. And the number-of-views is another thing i take into account. If a post gets many views in no time, and they are no "well known" influencer (i hate that word), then i do not even want to start the video.
When I saw that title I thought about twitter. It's bursting at the seams with bots. I keep blocking bots that follow me over and over. I'm not very active on twitter, and I only have one real follower, and I've already blocked over 100 bots in less than 2 months. Most of them are hot chicks with "real" names that follow lots of people and have almost no followers, no posts except maybe some retweets, some of them have a link in their bio, and only a few have no picture.
@@codingwithdee Let's all do that shall we :P Take all our expensive computers to landfill and throw them in! But then what do we do with our time? I know you're joking but if the internet is just going to end up a place full of scammers and their bots taking advantage of and warping our psychology like evil adverts then I'm not sure I want to be here anyway. At least with skynet - in terminator - there was no doubt about it's activities. Nevertheless, thanks for your videos Dee, they are good.
Nice video. You made a lot of effort to make this. Well done. Much appreciated. I am not on Social Media. I just come to YT to watch sports and some videos concerning coding. I stay away from chatgpt, etc.
Great video! It seems like in some very specific topics political bots are obvious when you know that they exist. One such weirdly specific topic is California High Speed Rail, where bots, or users who are against HSR who has picked up from the bots, post fake arguments like that it does nothing (yeah, it's not fully built yet, similar to that you can't live in a house if it's only partially built) or that "no rails have been laid" (which is very near the final parts of building it).
Great video, I had no idea. Why do platforms allow this type of bot? It seems like it would not be in their long term interest to have the platform overrun with fake comments and content.
They do not allow it, it's just not that simple to eliminate. And very few bother to report bots. When someone breaks into your home, does it automatically mean you "allowed" them in?
It's a difficult situation of cat and mouse. The bots are responsible for promoting content on social media platforms. Businesses pay these "agencies" to promote their content and rank higher. These "agencies" will then assign these bots to like or interact with their content. I've worked for a company that did this. Eventually, Google's algorithm will catch up
reddit wants a high share price, a high share price also sells advertising space at a higher price. Part of the strategy to achieve this is to have a high number of active users. If no-one can prove 70% of active users are actually bots, advertisers can be lied to and defrauded. FB and Twitter have pulled this stunt for years. It's why they don't publicise real engagement data, they just "summarise" and give press statement with claims no-one can dispute without seeing the actual data.
Reminds me of how email traffic reached over 50% spam before spam blockers began to become popular. I’ve seen claims that the volume of messages is now even higher, but they get blocked more quickly, these claims however are made by the companies that make spam blocker software so may be inflated. Where I work about 30% of incoming email is flagged as spam, phishing or other malicious content at our network edge, so it’s still pretty high.
Social engineering bots (political disinformation being one type) are a lot more common than most realize. Many are state sponsored, with a lot of resources, and made much harder to detect.
I’m glad you say possum instead of the so-called correct opossum. It’s country talk which I usually use as opposed to more academic vernacular. 😊 Possum sounds more friendly.
This is all very worrying. We must avoid anything that becomes a trend because it may have been created by a damn bot. Thanks Dee from Spain for reporting on this very important issue. Great info. Wait a minute, am I a bot? Hmmmm
We started becoming bots the moment we made phones. As phones are an extension to our capabilities. Same with pcs and tools which greatly enhance our human capabilities.
I think there is another application becoming more prevalent. Bots for marketing of real genuine products. “Awareness marketing” in particular, where the goal is to make product A more know to a target audience.
so my early post with bing ai might have been quasi flag spam or bot but because of my weird approach ai estimated over time that the likelyhood i was a bot was extremely low ? Darn ai are smart
More and more the dead internet theory is something I feel is becoming a reality, and yet I'm here thinking to myself, what am I doing here? Am I real anymore? Will anyone think I'm not? Will a bot steal my account's post to re-post later on? D:
It doesn't matter whether account is bot or not. Even before LLMs there were engagement markets and paid boosts. Real people also were malicious. What matters is, that now this practice is much cheaper, so one can safely assume that an average comment is malicious. So individual interaction did not change, statistics did.
Just like the yt bot that often deletes my comments which are not malicious or nasty; your anti-bot bot will end up deleting legitimate accounts. It's a serious problem. I look at your picture and it makes me feel inclined to reply to you but there is nothing to prove you are not a cold and lifeless bot residing in some CPU on a PC owned by a person who doesn't give a fk about anyone. It undermines everything!
Typical bot, IMO: "You're wrong." It's a comment with minimal effort and useful for all occasions, and it's aimed at creating not just one comment, but a reply. If the goal is to create traffic, that's accomplished. I call them "argue bots."
Totally Not A Bot: Man, this is head-shaking stuff. The pollution on Social Media is just increasing and increasing. We're probably going to have to make AI bots to manage our Social Media interactions for us, just for protections. Like using an AI filter to take out all the AI noise.
I think most are target you for a profile to track alongside you and impersonate you like a permanent interrogation and opportunity to use you where you are not, ie frame you, involve you in political activity very likely opposed to your views so you cannot fight back out of confusion at why you would be attacked.
I don.t think i am affect really yet since i.m not into influncers and basically only follow old timers, but i do wonder about the future, where it would be possible anymore to only follow real people since there.ll be no way to know eitherway
So far Musk is probably the longest and most convincing bot scam played on the human race throughout the history. Anyways, I'm out of the door to become the next Taylor Swift.
15:39 "I promise you I'm not a bot" that's exactly what a bot would say 🤣
Fascinating how many of your videos manage to get so many views but this one that speaks about something that will wake up so many and it only got 1600 views at this time.
Yeah it often depends on whether RUclips pushes the topic or not
The bots are already conspiring to censor....
It is scary to see how cheap bots are, and how much one presence one billionaire could buy on the entire web
Seems the general public is more into watching useless crap than learning useful things.
"a 1$ car vs. a $1000000 car".. What a silly topic.. but it scores like a beast.
I'd say: There is a much bigger audience for stupid nonesense than for informative posts. And the more specialized the publishers are, the audience is getting smaller and smaller. If Dee talked about assembler only, there would be just a few subscribers.
Some channels i watched before pump out so many videos in a short time, that i decided not to watch them anymore.
While the videos appear to be made by humans, it is close to impossible to do the research for a(ny) topic in such short time. For me that is a red flag.
Also, when i never see a human speaking, in none of their videos, i am also sceptic.
And the number-of-views is another thing i take into account. If a post gets many views in no time, and they are no "well known" influencer (i hate that word), then i do not even want to start the video.
Internet is the best mass confusion experiment. It really is 70% bots to 30% humans at this point 😂
Educating people about safely using the web is important. Thanks for helping out!
When I saw that title I thought about twitter. It's bursting at the seams with bots. I keep blocking bots that follow me over and over. I'm not very active on twitter, and I only have one real follower, and I've already blocked over 100 bots in less than 2 months. Most of them are hot chicks with "real" names that follow lots of people and have almost no followers, no posts except maybe some retweets, some of them have a link in their bio, and only a few have no picture.
It's not just Twitter. It's every social media platform. And their purpose is to promote brain rot content
The Internet is stupid.
We should all just log off
@@codingwithdee Let's all do that shall we :P Take all our expensive computers to landfill and throw them in!
But then what do we do with our time? I know you're joking but if the internet is just going to end up a place full of scammers and their bots taking advantage of and warping our psychology like evil adverts then I'm not sure I want to be here anyway. At least with skynet - in terminator - there was no doubt about it's activities.
Nevertheless, thanks for your videos Dee, they are good.
@@musicbro8225 you don't need to throw away your computer when you log off from it tho
Bot detected
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Nice video. You made a lot of effort to make this. Well done. Much appreciated. I am not on Social Media. I just come to YT to watch sports and some videos concerning coding. I stay away from chatgpt, etc.
Great video!
It seems like in some very specific topics political bots are obvious when you know that they exist. One such weirdly specific topic is California High Speed Rail, where bots, or users who are against HSR who has picked up from the bots, post fake arguments like that it does nothing (yeah, it's not fully built yet, similar to that you can't live in a house if it's only partially built) or that "no rails have been laid" (which is very near the final parts of building it).
Great video, I had no idea. Why do platforms allow this type of bot? It seems like it would not be in their long term interest to have the platform overrun with fake comments and content.
They do not allow it, it's just not that simple to eliminate. And very few bother to report bots.
When someone breaks into your home, does it automatically mean you "allowed" them in?
It's a difficult situation of cat and mouse. The bots are responsible for promoting content on social media platforms. Businesses pay these "agencies" to promote their content and rank higher. These "agencies" will then assign these bots to like or interact with their content. I've worked for a company that did this. Eventually, Google's algorithm will catch up
reddit wants a high share price, a high share price also sells advertising space at a higher price. Part of the strategy to achieve this is to have a high number of active users. If no-one can prove 70% of active users are actually bots, advertisers can be lied to and defrauded. FB and Twitter have pulled this stunt for years. It's why they don't publicise real engagement data, they just "summarise" and give press statement with claims no-one can dispute without seeing the actual data.
Reminds me of how email traffic reached over 50% spam before spam blockers began to become popular. I’ve seen claims that the volume of messages is now even higher, but they get blocked more quickly, these claims however are made by the companies that make spam blocker software so may be inflated. Where I work about 30% of incoming email is flagged as spam, phishing or other malicious content at our network edge, so it’s still pretty high.
Social engineering bots (political disinformation being one type) are a lot more common than most realize. Many are state sponsored, with a lot of resources, and made much harder to detect.
Hi Dee thank you for this video. Why are there not more influencers talking about this? It is most concerning.
Social networks helping eliminate the "social" from "network"
Dee, I like your robot stand-in in this video.😂
I’m glad you say possum instead of the so-called correct opossum. It’s country talk which I usually use as opposed to more academic vernacular. 😊 Possum sounds more friendly.
Haha, This is more of me watching too many American movies and just referring to it as a possum!
This needs to change, and as much as I don't want it to, I fear it must be through government actions (if they can even keep up).
Thanks. Very interesting.
What happened to internet 2? The thing Tim Berners Lee was or is working on? Did that have a way to reduce bots?
This is all very worrying. We must avoid anything that becomes a trend because it may have been created by a damn bot.
Thanks Dee from Spain for reporting on this very important issue. Great info.
Wait a minute, am I a bot? Hmmmm
We started becoming bots the moment we made phones. As phones are an extension to our capabilities. Same with pcs and tools which greatly enhance our human capabilities.
I can definitely live w/o social media. Thank you very much for this excellent video.
Its getting pretty crazy - Truman Internet, Truman World - Did an Atricle on this, the internet is dead. If you can disconnect do it :)
0:22 ouch!
Thanks for shedding light on the subject!
I'm sooo tired of YT shorts with the same AI generated voice 😭
I think there is another application becoming more prevalent. Bots for marketing of real genuine products. “Awareness marketing” in particular, where the goal is to make product A more know to a target audience.
Great video
I would have thought Bots by organizations like the 77th Brigade and Hasbara are pretty common now. They are there to shape public opinion.
this explains a lot ;) thanks
so my early post with bing ai might have been quasi flag spam or bot but because of my weird approach ai estimated over time that the likelyhood i was a bot was extremely low ? Darn ai are smart
More and more the dead internet theory is something I feel is becoming a reality, and yet I'm here thinking to myself, what am I doing here? Am I real anymore? Will anyone think I'm not? Will a bot steal my account's post to re-post later on? D:
3:30 Bad bots, bad bots whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
Psychological warfare!
This is all very disturbing really. Now I look at everyone on the internet as doubtful - that's the only way. Sucks!
Thank you.
"I promise you I'm not a bot." That's exactly what a bot would say! 😆
Btw, I promise I'm not a bot.
lol . Reddit is likely like square enix randomly they post , we removed 3500 account for x y z reason
It doesn't matter whether account is bot or not. Even before LLMs there were engagement markets and paid boosts. Real people also were malicious. What matters is, that now this practice is much cheaper, so one can safely assume that an average comment is malicious. So individual interaction did not change, statistics did.
reddit has become a dumpster fire in the past 2 years
Because they made it into a stock company, which ALWAYS cranks enshittification up to 11. Always.
I wonder whether it would be possible to develop a system to detect bot content... an anti-bot bot, so to speak.
Just like the yt bot that often deletes my comments which are not malicious or nasty; your anti-bot bot will end up deleting legitimate accounts. It's a serious problem. I look at your picture and it makes me feel inclined to reply to you but there is nothing to prove you are not a cold and lifeless bot residing in some CPU on a PC owned by a person who doesn't give a fk about anyone. It undermines everything!
There must be a way my using chatGPT.
and ofc readit dont care about bots it seems like there more popular then they really are they love it!
Odd. That’s what I imagine a bot might say.
At some point, we ll need to auth with a genetic footprint to prove humanity..
Typical bot, IMO: "You're wrong."
It's a comment with minimal effort and useful for all occasions, and it's aimed at creating not just one comment, but a reply. If the goal is to create traffic, that's accomplished. I call them "argue bots."
OMG! You are wrong.
@@pluto9000 Bot identified! 🤖
Totally Not A Bot: Man, this is head-shaking stuff. The pollution on Social Media is just increasing and increasing. We're probably going to have to make AI bots to manage our Social Media interactions for us, just for protections. Like using an AI filter to take out all the AI noise.
I think most are target you for a profile to track alongside you and impersonate you like a permanent interrogation and opportunity to use you where you are not, ie frame you, involve you in political activity very likely opposed to your views so you cannot fight back out of confusion at why you would be attacked.
Awesome
Oh wow, I underrated this :( it’s much bigger than I thought. Thanks for sharing it with us. It’s a bit scary to think where it’s going 🥲
*Wonders if Dee is AI generated*
I got a Moderate .. Hmmm but I am no bot
My daughter told me that someone theorized that there is no one on the internet. It is just bots. We are now living in matrix.
Yes. In fact, you are a bot 🤯
lol I wonder if Dee's bot is still out there hustling that binary trading scam...
I don.t think i am affect really yet since i.m not into influncers and basically only follow old timers, but i do wonder about the future, where it would be possible anymore to only follow real people since there.ll be no way to know eitherway
XO
Hard coding the API keys makes me 🥴
Damn Snooki, you really got your life together, I'm impressed.
It could be in this in this very room, it could be you, it could be me, it could even_
so many people are talking about how the internet is dead I am starting to think that it is nothing but bots spamming this lame theory
5 cent army you mean . So to be the ai army
Actually I’m now interested in the code
Can you make a video on creating the code from scratch?
It’s how I earn money. Help people solve IT related problems where bots with their narrow minded answers fail miserably.
it fees like 80% of my faceboot feed is bot content
lol , i play ff14 , text to read is a huge request . Most hate to read , too low
So true this huge problem.
instagram bot , those i see often , they fake being the channel owner and post we need to talk bla bla bla
are you real ?
still not convinced youre not AI lol
This pulsating light on your face and background is distracting me...
repost are comon , it's not indicative of bot
So far Musk is probably the longest and most convincing bot scam played on the human race throughout the history. Anyways, I'm out of the door to become the next Taylor Swift.
yer readit sucks its not a good thing its popular tbh! yt much better community!