Comment on Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• muelltonne@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This should be human usage - the user survey was done by phone.

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah, ok, 27% -> 19%, an 8% YoY drop, and the numbers were obtained using identical methodologies across multiple years. Yeah, I agree, seems to check out.

    Still, there are definitely a shitload more bots than there were before.

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    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are there more bots or does it just seem that way because there are fewer people? I don’t ask to be snarky, I’m legitimately curious what the numbers were and are.

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      • muelltonne@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        X seems to have stopped fighting against bots. So there are less people, more bots and those bots won’t be banned as quickly as before.

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  • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    edition.cnn.com/style/…/index.html

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• tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Any time something gets too big it gets bots. Lemmy will be the same. We will see instances getting un-federated who cannot manage the spam.

  Fuck Elon though

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  • GreatDong3000@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If peoole sets up their own instances with 100% LLM bots how would we even know they are bots to defederate? The AIs are too realistic. Only giveaway would be the ones dumb enough to make accounts post/comment 24/7 with seconds between each comment.

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    • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I imagine the content would be bad, which is the whole reason an instance would become defederated.

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    • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Right now, it’s still possible to realize texts are written by llms, due to style and mistakes, but it can become a serious problem in the near future, and we are kind of ignoring it, because no one is preparing in any way.

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      • GreatDong3000@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It will take someone really smart to figure this out without requiring some form of identity confirmation (which would be horrible imo), like using credit cards or (even worse) government digital IDs (I live in a country where we have a gov ID app which can be used to sign documents and confirm ID online but if I had to use it on Lemmy or any other social media I’d just fuck off).

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  • psmgx@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Any time something gets too big it gets bots

    Dead internet theory, summed up in a sentence

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• Hypx@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I suspect even more than 30%, and by a lot. Nearly all of the communities that once thrived seem to be dead. It feels very empty.

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• Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wasn’t like one of his focuses going to be getting rid of bots? Did they just not do anything and the bots just invaded or did the bots just get better?

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  • Jesusaurus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He got rid of like 80% of the staff. I doubt he has a functional team who can even tackle the problem.

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  • WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think the focus on bots was primarily used in an attempt to back out of the deal. It was never an issue, especially if it inflated his ego by pumping up his account.

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