The author also expresses confusion about why large social media platforms struggle to detect and ban these bots, citing Twitter's longstanding bot issue and Facebook's recent "love spell" bot problem. They compare this to gaming admins who ban cheaters in random waves to avoid revealing information. The author concludes by questioning the target audience and returns of these bot operations.
Key takeaways:
- The author has noticed a consistent presence of chat bots on the internet, from large social media platforms to smaller, friends-only forums.
- The author theorizes that these bots find forums by crawling for forum software signatures, similar to how they find vulnerabilities.
- There is a question about the purpose and return on investment of these bots, especially considering the costs involved in running them, such as the verified LLM powered bots on Twitter.
- The author also questions why large social media platforms struggle to find and ban these bots, citing examples of Twitter's long-standing bot problem and Facebook's 'love spell' bot issue.