Danger Will Rogers, Danger: The Rise of 'Bots'

Danger Will Rogers, Danger: The Rise of ‘Bots’ – Repetitive Mis/Dis-Information Detected!

THIS STARTS OUT WITH AN EXCERPT FROM WIKIPEDIA, however see article links after the Wiki definition. I might be adding more links later.

Always remember that the goal is ‘repetitiveness‘ of fake people (enhanced profiles now), fake videos (new), fake posts, fake articles, fake etc…

Educate yourself and do not take everything at face-value. Know your sources…

So when someone says this and that ‘news’ always, and I mean always ask them for their sources. The days of ‘I heard it from a friend, through another friend,’ or ‘I read it somewhere, but do not remember,‘ will not play anymore in a world of Climate Emergency and our upcoming 2024 Elections.

Please be aware that I am working on some very ethical and moral alternatives to those social media outlets that have become extremely unethical and riddled with ‘bots’ that are designed to mislead one. See the last few pages of GEM for in-depth details.

(No form of mockery or fake sources here folks, if you will…)

Bots are computer scripts that operate in an automated or semi-automated way and can perform certain actions more efficiently than humans.

Wikipedia bots are Internet bots (computer programs) that perform simple, repetitive tasks in Wikipedia. One prominent example of an internet bot used in Wikipedia is Lsjbot, which generated millions of short articles across various language editions of Wikipedia.^[1]

Activities

Computer programs, called bots, have often been used to automate simple and repetitive tasks, such as correcting common misspellings and stylistic issues, or to start articles, such as geography entries, in a standard format from statistical data.^[2]^[3]^[4] Additionally, there are bots designed to automatically notify editors when they make common editing errors (such as unmatched quotes or unmatched parentheses).^[5]

Anti-vandalism bots like ClueBot NG are programmed to detect and revert vandalism quickly.^[3] Bots are able to indicate edits from particular accounts or IP address ranges, as occurred at the time of the shooting down of the MH17 jet incident in July 2014 when it was reported edits were made via IPs controlled by the Russian government.^[6]

Bots on Wikipedia must be approved before activation.^[7]

A bot once created up to 10,000 articles on the Swedish Wikipedia in a day.^[8] According to Andrew Lih, the current expansion of Wikipedia to millions of articles would be difficult to envision without the use of such bots.^[9] The Cebuano, Swedish and Waray Wikipedias are known to have high numbers of bot-created content.^[10]

Danger Will Rogers, Danger: The Rise of ‘Bots’ – Repetitive Mis/Dis-Information Detected!