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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Why don't you clean up "the bots"? Useful to be precise here: "bots" is a catch all term that people use to describe low effort, uninteresting or otherwise off-topic content. However, a "bot" is traditionally thought of as a programmatic account, i.e. controlled by a script or software. e.g. bot net When people on Farcaster refer to "bots" they are more often referring to actual people using a mobile device (with the aid of translation tools and ChatGPT) who post uninteresting content (from their pov). They are casting and replying in hopes of appearing to be a "real account" because they have learned that turns into a future economic reward in crypto. Recent tipping meta has increased the expected value of these accounts. It's possible to algorithmically label these accounts, but then you create a "shadowban" meta. So you massively increase the number of support messages and complaints. This was the state of the world before priority mode.
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Tmophoto
@tmophoto
you dont think there is a flood of AI agents coming onboard to FC on the first of the month for the past 3-4 months? There has been a spike in users joining every time there has been a new degen season and they are all casting really low bar ai content.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Be precise. Do you believe the accounts are: 1. Run by a script / software using APIs to cast 2. Actual humans using mobile devices organized in Telegram groups to "farm" with ChatGPT and Google Translate
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Tmophoto
@tmophoto
I think there are a number of ai agents in a #1 scenario but I can’t confirm this. Each batch acted differently each month and seems like they were programmed differently for the past three months. they seem like they get much smarter in terms of how to evade the bot or not filters. There is a batch of accounts out there now that copy high engagement replies and paste them into other random casts in order to seem human I think. It’s nonsense reply when looking at the content of the original cast but I doubt the bot detection algos see it that way. Also knowing what happened with AXI Infinity and the farms of actual people that were being used with a phone I wouldn’t be surprised if it was both.
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