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[–] Cytobit@piefed.social 51 points 12 hours ago (14 children)

Blowing up data centers will not stop troll farms. Troll traffic is not coming from Yandex.

Some of the claims appear to conflate data centers with Russian “troll farms” such as the Internet Research Agency (IRA), which became well-known following a 2015 expose. The IRA operated out of a St. Petersburg office building, not a datacenter operated by Yandex. Nor does there appear to be any particular reason the IRA would require an inordinate amount of network resources.

[–] redballooon@lemmy.world 48 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

That's one instance of a troll farm from 11 years ago.

Surely nowadays these troll farms are LLM powered instead of human powered and of course need compute power.

Where the humans sit that orchestrate these bot networks is another topic.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know about that.

Feels like there's a high risk of the LLM going off script and going against the points they are trying to make.

Just like Trump's AI site saying the 2020 election was not stolen.

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 hours ago

Do you not see that daily? There's nothing internally consistent or coherent about 3/4 of what bots post, it's just garbage that sounds plausibly human.

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