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So once I have auto generated a 10k accounts using modern generative ai and then used them to make my content go viral with apparently personal indexing, what's your next step?

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In other words, "how do we fight spam?" Same as always -- with authentication and data analysis that's commensurate with available technology (i.e. at least whatever tools spammers have, including generative AI).

If you get past modern spam heuristics and have 10,000 phone numbers or government IDs or whatever makes for good auth these days, then kuddos. We are all fodder for The Red Queen hypothesis. The race continues.

This sort of purposeful injection of "bad" information has been possible rather cheaply across plenty of platforms that are open to use like this, even before modern generative ai. Some have suffered, clearly, but others have resisted it rather well for years. And they continue to be useful even with the new tech. For instance, how do you think high value targets like Wikipedia continue to resist this sort of behavior?

Perhaps considering that may bring some creative ideas to mind for you and other hackers, other than the pessimism that seems to underlie your take here (it seems not uncommon these days).

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