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”.
[Alice]“Bob, we’re going to butcher a pig and get rich selling the meat!”[Bob]“Okay. What do I need to do?”[Alice]“give me some money for pig food.”[Bob]“fine”[gives Alice five coins][Alice, a month later]“Bob, our pig is eating a lot. We’ll need more money. Could you spare fifteen coins?”[Bob]“Fifteen? Fuck.”[Alice]“If you don’t give me 15 coins the pig will starve, and we’ll lose the investment. Remember, once we butcher the pig we’re getting rich!”[Bob]“Fiiiiine.”[gives Alice fifteen coins.][Bob, a month later]“Hey Alice, how is our pig going?”[Bob]“Alice? Where are you?”[radio silence]And Alice just stole 20 coins from Bob, through a pig butchering scam.