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Part 1. Introduction. We continue with personal experiences of the early Internet and references on the history of the Internet.

The internet has changed in a very short period of time. It was once a wild, untamed place, but in the last two words, for lack of a better term, it has become "normalized."

When I was a kid in the late 1990s and 2000s, Facebook, Youtube, TikTok and Instagram neo. Instead, the content of that era was almost entirely made up of hobbyists creating small, personal websites that had no intention of generating revenue. In that sense, the internet was only meant for people who knew how to use it and for you who could afford it, so there ended up being a lot of people showing them their values

Eventually, the internet went mainstream. Social media has emerged, mobile phones have become extremely ubiquitous all over the world, and access to the Internet has become easier and cheaper. It is through this explosion that the average person's access has become a developed force and population. You could argue that they tried to appear cool and trendy by going online, but regardless of their intentions, they consistently undermined the value and quality of publications and the internet.

[ Mention "netiquette", according to the disclosure of confidential data on the Internet, was previously unacceptable.]

Over the years, the internet has become something that "they" didn't control, and they've had to put in a significant effort to control it, and after a lot of work, that's what they're doing now. Bots are a BIG part of that. Another one is multi-platform touts. Now that the internet is so widely used by so many people, manipulation becomes very beneficial for those seeking money or power.

A prime example that comes to mind is Reddit. I've never been into "web nationalism," so I still go to the site from time to time to check things out, but in general, Reddit is rife with bots and straw men. On the subreddit dedicated to the conversation, there was a report that this guy went to a subreddit dedicated to politics and sent links to a lot of users in a confidential way, telling them, "This link will record your IP address, don't click on it." Of course, they weren't lying; the link did record their IP addresses. According to him, when the trial ended, about 80% of users clicked on the link a few seconds after he sent a message in a private message. The government of these users responded a few minutes later, rejecting the claim to collect IP addresses. That's not to say there weren't regular visitors, because my couple, who caused their confusion, never clicked on the link. Admittedly, this is a small choice and, at best, a questionable experiment. However, it would not be entirely wrong to say that the rest of the leaders account for 10 bots and 2 shills, the share of 1 respectable user.

[ if the whole internet isn't better. 4chan doesn't have a private messaging system, so we can't be sure, however, after I've smashed my head /pol/ in the last few months, it's usually necessary to promote, uy prudma. Even Discord raiders, called in solely to annoy other users (who are themselves also unpaid dummy users), are being discovered because they are hiding people.

Part 2 - The Problem: Outline the basics of what appears to be happening.

There is a large-scale, deliberate effort to manipulate discourse online and wider culture via the complex utilization of a system of bots and paid employees whose job it is to produce content and respond to content online in order to further the agenda of those they were employed by.==

We've already seen this in action through foreign nations influencing elections by manipulating advertising algorithms on social media in order to push specific candidates.

[Oxy: need to talk about shills or otherwise key disinformation tactics]

[Oxy: misinformation might also help but it's less of a focus for this theory]

I strongly believe this is a positive feedback loop, and thus, I blame Facebook and Twitter. The internet is the de facto access to information, and information is what moves the mind. The mind likes recognition. When user interaction systems like voting, or "likes" were introduced, without negative feedback, they created a copy-feedback subconscious. As such, only "positive" opinions are able to be propagated while sequesting "negative" opinions to obselesence.

It's from this system that more accurately drives groupthink. The average internet user is afraid to have an opinion that goes against everyone else because they want the votes (or as Luke Smith in this video on the matter describes it, upcummies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjbyDU0WzYI).

Consequently, they are more likely to follow trends and repeat what other people have said. A prominent example of this comes in the form of near-religious advocation of experts, experts, experts. (I use "near-religious" deliberately, since no rational person would "believe" in science. They understand it.) Though that's not to mention that the fear of missing out on trends and running against them is something to scoff at either.

I believe that the proliferation of the internet was originally supposed to democratize media and content by allowing users to create whatever they wanted. On the old internet, you could start anew every time you posted something. Anonymity was a means of protection against toxic negative feedback, so people were willing to express their opinions and try radical or experimental things. Though many people on all sides today would spit on what may be juvenile proliferation of such behavior (See: Derision of Antifa), they were counterculture.

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So what about bots then? Aren't they the ghost in the machine?

Not necessarily. For all their wonderful AI, bots don't add a higher degree of complexity to this system. (Which up until now has been startlingly human-driven.) It'd be better to assume that they amplify what's already happening.

They repeat the same opinion more and more, and faster than us. Anonymity can't do anything against bots because we can't externally influence the bot like we could a human--that has to come from whoever is using it. Since most people are more concerned with their online identity (which is in of itself yet another problem), they don't try to consider the content, and as such, continue to insemminate them further. If this is true [need to include of bots], it's a startling evolution of propaganda. The rigid mechanics of bots make it an easy weapon to manipulate people, and it's a boon for people with agendas. (Let's not forget different sides here.)

I believe google is one of those that makes bots, after all they work like a search engine, where they get the most accepted content first, Is the same as doing an ad. [Oxy: Do they work like a search engine, though? Aren't they repeating and amplifying topics and opinions by being activated by key words in otherwise organic conversation? "obtaining the most popular content first" is a huge duh moment because of course they're the first ones to get it. They are bots! They need to be loaded up with specific information and put in a certain direction! Green highlighter dude, I have no idea what you're trying to say here.]

It might be easy to see that these functions are what's keeping us locked in this state of widespread groupthink, and that is true to an extent. However, when you consider who's manning these tools, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that perhaps an elite few has enabled mainstream media to develop, and then hijacked it.

Part 3 - Why is This Happening?: Explain eate teamand I always have a pang of nostalgia for that lost little bit of extra freedom and ease, but if anyone else here was around back then, you'll likely remember how frequently the site was overrun by rogue bots. It literally made 4chan unusable for days at a time.

Does anyone remember the clockwork orange bot? It's the one I particularly remember, and which (if I recall) may have ushered in the era of the captcha.

For those who don't remember it, what happened was that a particular still of Alex from A Clockwork Orange holding his head and screaming (NOT the famous scene where he's in the strait jacket with his eyes held open) started to get posted without any text in random threads. It looked like a standard memey reaction image at first, but then it started to get posted an excessive amount: multiple posts in a row of this image, then new threads started with the image. And to get around the script that blocks multiple posts of the same image, the picture changed colour slightly each time it was posted.

Within a day or two, /b/ was almost nothing but empty-text posts of differently-tinted images of this picture. I think (and I can't remember for sure, but this is how I recall it) that moot shut down the site completely for maintenance and when it came back online he'd installed the captcha 'as a temporary fix'.

An easy way for bots to get past captchas is for someone to set up a system for feeding captchas to humans at another location.

Example:

Mr Shill wants to get his bot to post on /pol/, but the bot can't get past the captcha. Mr Shill implements a piece of software that triggers every time his bot tries to post. The software takes the captcha image that his bot is trying to solve and feeds it into a 'fake' captcha that he has set up as a gatekeeper for a pornographic film download on a different website.

Jonny Retard wants to download Ass Licking Trannies 23 and finds a link to download it on Mr Shill's website (1080p WebRip aUtHeNtIc DoWnLoAd!!!). He clicks the download button and a captcha pops up. He eagerly solves the captcha. The text he has just typed in gets copied and used to solve the captcha image on 4chan, thus allowing the bot to post.

Jonny Retard is disappointed when Mr Shill's website tells him he must log in as a premium user to download this movie.

https://forum.agoraroad.co

m/index.php?threads/dead-internet-theory-most-of-the-internet-is-fake.3011/

There's also services that people can nfow pay for to have their captchas solved.

Part 4 - How Are They Doing it?: Semi-technical description of how botnets are used.

I've been here long enough to remember the days before the captcha and I always have a pang of nostalgia for that lost little bit of extra freedom and ease, but if anyone else here was around back then, you'll likely remember how frequently the site was overrun by rogue bots. It literally made 4chan unusable for days at a time.

Does anyone remember the clockwork orange bot? It's the one I particularly remember, and which (if I recall) may have ushered in the era of the captcha.

For those who don't remember it, what happened was that a particular still of Alex from A Clockwork Orange holding his head and screaming (NOT the famous scene where he's in the strait jacket with his eyes held open) started to get posted without any text in random threads. It looked like a standard memey reaction image at first, but then it started to get posted an excessive amount: multiple posts in a row of this image, then new threads started with the image. And to get around the script that blocks multiple posts of the same image, the picture changed colour slightly each time it was posted.

Within a day or two, /b/ was almost nothing but empty-text posts of differently-tinted images of this picture. I think (and I can't remember for sure, but this is how I recall it) that moot shut down the site completely for maintenance and when it came back online he'd installed the captcha 'as a temporary fix'.

An easy way for bots to get past captchas is for someone to set up a system for feeding captchas to humans at another location.

Example:

Mr Shill wantss to get his bot to post on /pol/, but the bot can't get past the captcha. Mr Shill implements a piece of software that triggers every time his bot tries to post. The software takes the captcha image that his bot is trying to solve and feeds it into a 'fake' captcha that he has set up as a gatekeeper for a pornographic film download on a different website.

Jonny Retard wants to download Ass Licking Trannies 23 and finds a link to download it on Mr Shill's website (1080p WebRip aUtHeNtIc DoWnLoAd!!!). He clicks the download button and a captcha pops up. He eagerly solves the captcha. The text he has just typed in gets copied and used to solve the captcha image on 4chan, thus allowing the bot to post.

Jonny Retard is disappointed when Mr Shill's website tells him he must log in as a premium user to download this movie.

Part 5 - The Effects: Describe the outcomes that we have seen so far in culture, human psychology, etc. and where it might lead.

The real problem is that flesh-and-blood human beings have been directed by an algorithm to act in a way that emulates bot behaviour.

Realistically-animated people pretending to be real isn't necessary when the algorithm can get real people to do its bidding.

We know for a fact that this happens because it's exactly what happened in an obvious way in 'Elsagate'. More disturbing is how we might be seeing algorithmic feedback loops encouraging content creators to create certain types of pornography.

Think about it: porn used to be made by a big film company that had funding to make films. The people in the company would come up with some stupid idea for a film, call up some appropriate porn actors, shoot the damn film and then try to sell it to people.

Now, increasingly (and this has really only happened in the last few years), porn is created by independent users and posted online directly. They do not have funding, and are not trying to simply make a quality film that people will want to buy, but are trying to make something that will trigger the algorithm, and thus generate revenue through networks of ad revenue, data-farming, and/or micropayments.*

What happens when the algorithm drifts (having no human compunctions, no understanding of morality or culture) towards increasingly bizarre and extreme content? The human content creators who are trying to ride the algorithm will respond to this change and alter their output to better fit the algorithm and trigger the correct search terms and to trigger the feed of links that bump content up search rankings.

I'm not explaining this very well, but if you read the original big exposé on Elsagate, you'll know what I'm talking about.

*Video games do this, too: notoriously. The business model used to be to make a fun game that people would want to play, sell lots of copies. The business model now is to make a game that keeps people playing. It doesn't have to be fun, it just has to keep people playing