Lessons for Newfags: Reply Bots (whatever)

submitted ago by Le_Squish

If you have never seen them in action, you can observe them here: https://voat.co/v/theawakening/2730475.

Try them out. Say something retarded and AI will produce some canned answer.

Bots like these are used to manufacture consensus and are an intergral part of narrative control. Imagine what happens when the swarm descends on a post and compromised mods start deleting all the human replies.

Bots like this will also mass upload spam, porn, CP and make calls to violence. There are many instances of some voaters getting on the operators shitlist and getting dogpilled and stalked. It's good to let other users known if they are targeting you since it is very easy to prove and ban the offenders.

I hope this helps someone.

6Catfish-Ninja9 ago

Thank You.

MadWorld ago

Users can also report them to /v/ProtectVoat. For spam comments/bots, report to /v/reportspammers.

Triceratography ago

Those don't look like shariablu at all. What group are they, and are you sure it's even bots rather than just one moron with 3 alts?

The professional ones were staffed by real people. Remember in 2016, they were required to reply to anything you said, in order to have the "last word"? I guess they think it gives the illusion of being right to an observer.

Le_Squish ago

There seems to be certain words that will trigger an operator to manually reply.

This network is made of many dozens of bits and appeared after the Vegas shooting.

Triceratography ago

I know the us was working on them for nearly a decade before Obama legalized propaganda on us citizens. I have to assume theirs are at least a bit better.

But you're right, I missed the collapsed reply where you told a guy he's talking to bots. The 'are you defending this' actually does look like SB but they use real people and only post from 9-5. Maybe they're on reduced budget or new tactics.

Le_Squish ago

The best guys are saved for the 4am Monday narrative push. They get more and shit-tier as week progresses. Also notice the lack of porn being posted right now.

Triceratography ago

The porn is hard to tell because I block those subverses. I thought maybe they ran out of ideas for new ones. There are really only so many permutations of [english word here]+ASS

nament ago

Good to know, thanks.

But nah for real I'm newfag as shit and I legit wasn't aware that bots were a thing. I just kind of figured those types of replies were boomer posters.

Le_Squish ago

They seemed to be trained on low effort one liners. That is why they can't handle if you start talking in a retarded or atypical fashion.

Triceratography ago

Chatbots are easy to set up, but most of the bots around here are just submission spam bots. The spam bots post imgur photos of landscapes and bullshit, and comment on each others posts like "Great info" and "I love this" until they get enough points to lose the posting rate limit, then they advertise shit like plumbers in New Delhi.

We did get legit, funded by DNC and staffed by real people, shill armies here before the 2016 election. They were fun because their employer forced them to keep trying to debate you after they'd already lost. If you refused to let them go off-topic or move the goalposts, their script would run out real fast and they'd have to think for themselves.

baphometsrage ago

Those shareblue/JIDF shills were so weak when their starting tactics failed that it was hilarious, clearly they lacked the vetting or experience to compete with people that do this shit because we enjoy it. The promise of $8/hr (or a few shekels per comment) is no match for the passion of a Western patriot

boredTech ago

http://www.jabberwacky.com/

https://www.pandorabots.com/mitsuku/

Play with a couple of chatbots out there to get a feel for how they work. The most prominent work off of AIML if you're interested in that type of stuff.

What are you?
A human.
Really, prove it.
I'm typing on the keyboard and having an intelligent (I think) conversation with you.
Nah, you respond to fast.
You will respond to everything I say.