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Sebastopol140
Hawt!
doctorId
Recently had to break it to my 62yo brother with 7 teeth that this was who was messaging him on insta, not Scarlett Johansson.
Cavy
If MediaLab AI, Inc. (the owners of Imgur) actually did account verifications and removed all the slick bot posts, Id bet more than 60% of all of Imgur's traffic would disappear and most of the hate and political posts would be gone with them. Let's force them to do an audit !! STOP THE BOT POSTS.
FatBastardVegetarian
xaviar3000
Surely it’d be easier to run a bunch of VMs with bluestacks than this, right?
LordHotPie
is that Mars?
Samthetrue
I'm just glad it's a real person. I hate the bots sometimes.
I'm not saying anything bad about our robot overlords, but I spent 2 years dating a girl online, only to discover she was an AI construct. I guess i should have seen the signs... but who doesn't love a romantic scroll through the social media? Or ordering things we don't need? Or breathing with our human lungs? They are indistinguishable!
Cornflakes91
that is hella dystopian, friend.
also when did that happen? the bots didnt have much time to be good enough and fit two years in
jhuckaby
Honest question: Why do they need real physical phones to do this? I mean, could they not use virtual machines / emulators of some kind? Sorry if I am the dumb.
FellaWithUmbrella
sadurdaynight
I know whenever *I* text a wrong number that i become overly friendly and try to start a relationship with a random stranger. I'm polite enough to wait until the third day to start telling them my sob stories and asking for money, though. /s
ironymus
lonelyrangerofthedreams
Maybe a couple of years ago.
Now it is an Nvidia appliance.
5xAllan
Why are photos like this one ALWAYS in such a bad quality?
Targe0
Just remember that a large portion of people working in scam centres are actually victims of human trafficking and are being forced to do scams and will be tortured if they don't bring in at least $1000 USD a week.
UsertubeBandwagon
i’m pretty sure I see the guy I was arguing with about flat earth!
Dolenmorgul
She's hot
OneUniverse
They lost their jobs to AI.
captainnewbi
I had two try to add me on discord this week.
FreePalestineAndTheWorldFromIsrael
I called them out after outing them as scam bots and the verbal tiade that ensued afterwards by them was comedic.
Idrinkforevil
or the fb marketplace person asking if its still available
blfpd
Sur un malentendu ça peu marcher
Sebastopol140
On sait jamais.
evilflo
Ça pourrait faire un bon film ça !
SalmonTheWise
I'm always baffled that this is what botfarms do instead of setting up one server with virtual devices. Seems like unnecessary hassle.
SteveD31415
Because each of those contacts requires human intervention at some point. One size fits all doesn't fit anything.
wheredoisign
Some apps are good at picking up they run in virtualization and not on an physical device
apLundell
Virtual devices are an endless arms race of detection/counter-detection. Can't get banned for using a virtual device if you use a wall of cheap phones.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Websites can detect virtual mobile devices / emulators. YouTube et al track everything from CPU architecture over system build fingerprints, carrier info, and physical sensor data (gyroscopes, accelerometers etc.) to user input data like swipe speed and touch duration. They can even tell if it's a real mobile device but controlled by an auto-clicker app rather than an actual person. So you either need a human worker or a robot arm that drags a frankfurter across the screen.And humans are cheaper
Targe0
A lot of them aren't bot farms, they are run by human traffickers out of South East Asia.
Then force them to run multiple scams on people every week. And will beat them if they don't bring in a minimum of $1000 USD a week. As has been verified by people who have been freed from some of the slave traders.
Scahrossar
This needs more upvotes. Its well documented that a fair few scammers are victims themselves. For more info see, among others, Last Week Tonight on Pig Butchering.
FluidExchangeProgram
Imgur political posters, in real life.
Cornflakes91
"hey mars"
fierofool
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1Ym5hY3htczJmZ3Y1OHllbDlubjFyd2tpZHVnNzh0ZWJjOXcxNDQ4ciZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/Hm8qQxDIgbFsjL9msa/200w.webp
JasonFndrbrkr
It looks like CBS is keeping a close eye on their content
Bruskey
They are at least trying there best.
DinkyDoinky
Everyone i disgree with is a russian bot?
gablestout
yamsonyamsonyams
Bit farms are everywhere - not just Russia
People think the 2016 elections were swayed by Russia - it was largely Cambridge analytica, an American company
DinkyDoinky
Dot forget about Macedonia as well.
WholeWheatBunnyHugger
Go on...
yamsonyamsonyams
What
gablestout
Cambridge Analytica (and it's successor, Emerdata) was a British company, and a subsidiary of another British Company, SCL Group.
yamsonyamsonyams
Yes, Run by Steve bannon and funded with American money
More importantly: not Russian
The Russian influence perception was propagated by people who didn’t want you to think about the fact that American oligarchs were doing the very same thing
gablestout
Alexander Nix was the CEO, not Steve Bannon. Bannon was a VP. Christopher Wylie claimed "Bannon was Alexander Nix’s boss" but that was conjecture, and what Bannon was really in charge of was U.S. political campaigns. It's quite common to have senior consultants or VPs run divisions, but Alexander Nix always had final say.