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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.
The key elements of the scam: