• @bitwaba
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    37 hours ago

    A lot of the botting is just copy and pasting previous actual human topics and comments though, so they’re not really wrong.

    Actual bot created content is pretty boring, and never “contributes” in a way that would make for a useful Google result. Your Google result may be a bot’s comment, but if that comment is answering a question of some kind there’s a 99% chance the comment was originally written by a human.

    • @[email protected]
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      27 hours ago

      copying and pasting a comment is still less genuine, since that promotes stale and outdated information. It can also create the false idea of a “widely held” opinion rather than a single person’s opinion copied a dozen times.