Seeing LLM bots proliferate so many social media platforms has my noggin joggin: how has Discord avoided it?

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

Why are people paying storage for these llm bots? What is the incentive?

Do some people just want to watch the world burn?

𝓵𝓲𝓿𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓼𝓾𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓻 • building @buoy 🛟 • pfista.com

Even on platforms where there's no pay to play still has them. So it's arguably not even just the attempt at grinding on airdrops (like degen or others) that's driving it. It's super weird.

@pfista 

After seeing this phishing attempt, I think there might be another reason people pay for bots to be on Farcaster. They can monitor for opportunities to phish the community.  See this one which was precisely timed with a genuine Moxie communication.  For bad actors, it can be lucrative to pay for bots. ☹️

quote cast below from @dudeamir.eth and @rjs :

Building @datalatte /datalatte, I care about data ownership and privacy 🎓|PhD in chip design 
💻|full-time engineer, part-time vanlifer🚐

Husband, dad, dev • @dune.eth wizard • Ultimate Ⓜ️oxie Dashboard https://tinyurl.com/moxiedash • Ultimate Degen Tips FAQ https://tinyurl.com/degenfaq

@pfista 

After seeing this phishing attempt, I think there might be another reason people pay for bots to be on Farcaster. They can monitor for opportunities to phish the community.  See this one which was precisely timed with a genuine Moxie communication.  For bad actors, it can be lucrative to pay for bots. ☹️

quote cast below from @amirmabhout and @rjs :

https://warpcast.com/rjs/0x5bdffb5b

Feels like a new form of trolling more than anything, or at least trying to harvest “engaged” accounts that could later be sold 

In either case I am becoming very good at recognizing ai vs human speak near instantly