Where do they pull information from/how do they know what to say? And who makes/benefits from these accounts?
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Different bots operate differently and pull information from different sources.
A bot is a program. It looks at certain things and takes actions based on criteria met. That application or program that we call a bot, in this case named auto moderator, runs on a server somewhere.
ELI5 uses a bot to make sure all the posts start with ELI5. So it looks at every post made on ELI5. If has ELI5 at the beginning it ignore the post.
If it doesn’t have ELI5 at the beginning, it takes the actions it was programmed to (in this case, removing the thread and asking the user to resubmit with ELI5 at the beginning).
Other bots are more complicated, like a chat bot potentially. I don’t know that I’ve interacted with any of them — there are plenty of humans dumb enough to pass for robots, I don’t need to assume dumb things were written by robots.
But most bots just see X or Y and do A or B.
Who makes them? People who want to experiment with a practical use for their programming knowledge. People who want to help Reddit mods. People who are bored and just want to tinker.
I know I didn’t hit all of your points, but I hope I helped. What did I miss?
If you specifically mean Reddit accounts, generally they’ll write a program that looks at popular posts from the past, then reposts them. Particularly sophisticated ones will have networks of these bots, so they might have others that take the comments that were highly voted on those posts the first time they were made and then copy those, too.
Their goal is to build up karma on an account and make it look like it has a normal posting history so that they can sell it to spammers who want to be able to advertise without looking like that’s what they’re doing. They think they’re more likely to get you to buy what they’re selling if they look like a normal redditor giving a product recommendation than if they’re a clearly brand new account.
That’s why you should always report bot accounts reposting stuff if you see them. It’s a lot harder for them to sell those accounts to spammers if they get banned or suspended.
You can ‘train’ an AI to do pretty much whatever you want depending on the source material you feed it. The technology to do this is available to the public and it is called GPT-2. It can be used by anyone who would want to generate prose. The special power of the technology is the amount of text that can be generated, but not necessarily the quality. Not all of the generated text is going to make sense, but so much unique text can be generated in such a short period of time that it makes up for it. Trolls are an obvious example of how it can be used for bad, but a way it can be used for good is by writers who want to generate short stories or mimic a certain writing style.
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Computer programmers design it usually for what i think and they benefit from it because they sell the program to someone and that someone is using it to make money in a video game by like auto fishing for you…or going on footlocker and buying limited sneakers for you.
The programming behind it im not sure. You can jus google how programmin code works.
On twitter they just spam kpop gifs & use trending hashtags all day to gain followers, then I assume they sell the account
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