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CTR bot "hil4prez" caught malfunctioning on /r/politics (pbs.twimg.com)

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[–]Brendawgy_420 60ポイント61ポイント  (1子コメント)

I like how each post mentions conspiracy theories, I guess this sub has been doing quite well recently so we need to be made to seem a bit loopy again. Freaky shit though never seen a bot mess up like that, good find.

[–]cylth [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Amazing find. Just point to this any time anybody questions us when we say there be shills among us.

[–]factsnotfeelings 80ポイント81ポイント  (12子コメント)

lol, so some of the 'shills' we encounter are automated bots? interesting

[–]Domriso 35ポイント36ポイント  (3子コメント)

Cheaper than paying for actual shills.

[–]elnegroik 21ポイント22ポイント  (2子コメント)

Fine, albeit, weird example of automation replacing human labour. Even the jobs of a shill aren't safe from the machine takeover.

[–]baeareafundevil 8ポイント9ポイント  (1子コメント)

Ironically, the presence of automated shills is a symptom of the biggest issue trump capitalized on- the loss of jobs to automation. They are literally giving validation to Trump's position by doing this

[–]RokBo67 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Did he actually discuss losing jobs to technology and automation? I only ever heard him speak about job loss to outsourcing and immigrants.

[–]libertyant 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

how would they go about preventing stupid replies? although i guess the type we see in that bots messages can really be applied to any thread indiscriminately .

[–]TheUltimateSalesman [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

I thought that was known. It's pointless to even talk on the internet. Any and all of you could be AI. In fact, you could be in a bubble, only talking to AIs.

[–]TripleEEE1682 [スコア非表示]  (3子コメント)

I hadn't realized that until recently. It makes me feel so stupid. How often did I craft a thoughtful reply to a robot?

[–]Middleman79 [スコア非表示]  (2子コメント)

You can tell as they comment but never reply to the gazillion replies.

[–]WhatIfThatThingISaid [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

I never reply to anyone on here. I don't look at my messages, just open it once and a while and exit out without looking so the notification stops

[–]TBSdota [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Reminds me of a WoW bot farmer. They run several scripted bots and monitor for responses

[–]gregatron123 75ポイント76ポイント  (9子コメント)

The war against the machines hmmm Sarah Connor said the dogs can smell them

[–]Kabukikitsune 15ポイント16ポイント  (5子コメント)

Well, there's one thing I can say about the machines (all hail our robot overlords). I work in tech support. So they'll have to keep me alive if they want to keep working properly.

[–]gregatron123 5ポイント6ポイント  (4子コメント)

Alive is a broad term narrow for a machine

[–]Kabukikitsune 7ポイント8ポイント  (2子コメント)

You ever watch the video of the two chat bots in a discussion between each other?

https://youtu.be/WnzlbyTZsQY

Watch that and tell me what your definition of Alive is.

[–]HAESisAMyth 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

broad term narrow

?

[–]MKULTRAserialkillers 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

Wash day tomorrow? Nothing clean, right?

[–]jasron_sarlat 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Well played.

[–]MKULTRAserialkillers 9ポイント10ポイント  (0子コメント)

POSSIBLE RESPONSE:

YES/NO

OR WHAT?

GO AWAY PLEASE COME BACK LATER

FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE

The Terminator: Fuck you, asshole

[–]daneelr_olivaw 67ポイント68ポイント  (8子コメント)

Thar was a hoax. Whrn that screenshot was taken, the account only had a few comments and was a few hours old. It was most likely made to make fun of /r/conspiracy talking about CTR all the time (like four months ago or so). There used to be a thread about it here already but it's gone now (I remember it being downvoted).

EDIT.

Here's a link to the time when this was first posted:

https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/4s8kqk/are_hillbots_actual_bots/

[–]in_the_airoplane 10ポイント11ポイント  (3子コメント)

Are you so sure it was a joke account, though?

At this point I don't trust anything when it comes to the CTR fuckery deployed here.

[–]daneelr_olivaw 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

See my edit.

[–]FriendlessComputer [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

The syntax of those posts doesn't even make sense. Why would random [[[s and "bot snippets" be in the alleged "program" at all? That doesn't look at all like how a bot would work, but it looks exactly how one thinks a bot works.

Also, /r/the_donald are the kings of reddit false-flags. Someone from there went and created hundreds of fake accounts on /r/politics and got them all shadowbanned (for using alts) to make it appear as though trump supporters were getting mass banned.

[–]bicycle [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

if the bot runs on plaintext input and explodes the string into a few different elements, and if the plaintext input was screwed up, this could easily happen

[–]age_of_cage [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

You're not actually offering any evidence to support your hoax theory.

[–]metrize [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Lol this sub is batshit crazy people who fall for anything

[–]EyeCrush [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Thar was a hoax.

No, no it wasn't. Don't lie. Nothing you posted proves anything. At all.

[–]ReginaldLADOO [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Well that's hilarious.

[–]TheInfirminator [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

[[[bot snippet 1386g[[[paste message 112m[[[Looks like a typo to me, nothing to see here citizen. I suggest you stop swimming in conspiracy theories and donate all of your money to the Clinton Foundation, which is totally not corrupt.[[[end snippet[[[

[–]MaddMaxx636 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

The titles to those posts are a little creepy! I suggest you move on with your life and stop swimming in conspiracy theories.

[–]ourlegacy 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

If that was a real bot, what code would it even have been written in? It seems like someone made an account and tried to make it look like a bot account.

[–]TripleEEE1682 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Can I just say to whoever plans campaigns, that the use of shills on social media turned me in a rabid, Hillary-hating dog? I'm a middle aged woman who entered the election prepared to support her if Bernie didn't win, but the interactions I had with shills made me want to flip over cars and set them on fire.

I really hope that campaign strategists might rethink this approach. We can tell when there are shills. We can just tell, and it's the most offensive oppressive phenomena I've encountered in some time.

[–]HAESisAMyth 7ポイント8ポイント  (2子コメント)

Those are the user's only three comments/karma, and it was months ago, not days like your screencap suggests.

[–]EyeCrush [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

not days like your screencap suggests.

Wait.... 'sugggest?'

How do screencaps with no date suggest jack shit?

[–]Ex-nihilo-nihil-fit [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Found the bot

[–]AyyLmaoForYou [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

The shills aren't stupid, and they had(have?) enough real people to post full paragraphs of bullshit for them.

Don't take the obvious bait.

[–]NutritionResearch [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

That is probably a fake, but who knows...Here is some verified information on Internet shills: Astroturfing Information Megathread. There are about 65 links there, mostly reports in the mainstream press, including information about shill bots, websites that sell old Reddit accounts, studies on astroturfing detection, etc. There is also a list of shill confessions in the comments, but these are anonymous reports, so we have no way of verifying those confessions.

Here are some of the links relevant to this post:

As far as Reddit goes, if bots are on Twitter, they are on Reddit. Reddit is the 3rd most popular social media site in the US (Facebook and Twitter being the larger two) and it's much easier to create convincing fake accounts. It is also much easier to spread information to a large audience on Reddit. Bots are certainly on Reddit and I wouldn't look to "subreddit simulator" for an accurate take on the current bot capabilities. Part of me thinks those bots were made deliberately shitty to convince Redditors that they would be easy to distinguish from real users.

[–]cinta [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Pretty sure that was a joke

[–]one-hour-photo [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Nothingburger.exe

[–]in_the_airoplane -1ポイント0ポイント  (1子コメント)

I'm so glad you caught this.

This picture, along with the NYT hourglass chart of "look how our forecasts have changed" (showing Trump with just a 20% chance of winning pre-election swinging up to 95% as the results came in) is one of the biggest symbols of everything wrong with the election cycle.

[–]thejazz97 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

But that is how probability works... it doesn't matter how much the odds are in the beginning. For instance, in this case, it was showing that Trump would win every 1 in 5 elections with the same variables came in. As time went on and the results came in, narrowing possibilities, Trump's chances jumped to winning 19 elections in every 20.

[–]showmeurboobsplznthx 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's obvious

[–]some_random_kaluna 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

2016 is an interesting year. We get to pay more and more attention to the man behind the curtain.

[–]HokutoNoChen [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

The odds of this being a false flag are much higher than it being an actual conspiracy bot, kek. Especially because those code lines are utter nonsense.