X is becoming a ‘ghost town’ of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making::The internet is filling up with machine-generated “zombie content” designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the “great AI flood”.

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      7 months ago

      Farm followers to look like a legit user -> sell account -> it is used to advertise or push agendas.

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      7 months ago

      Pretend to be users so you can claim to have users so you can make money on the gamble market so you can be rich.