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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
TechTangents@dialup.space ("Tech Tangents") wrote:

I put out a video that was critical of AI without AI being mentioned in title, thumbnail, or description. And it was dogpiled with pro-AI comments almost instantly.

This video has almost 2.5X as many comments per view as my most recent "controversial" video, and 4.5 the average.

I don't want to say that AI bots are being used to astrorturf videos after scraping scripts, but I have a hard time believing this is real based on experience.

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Table of all data showing the ATAboy video received almost 3x as many comments per view as next video, and nearly 5x the average Video,Views,Comments,Views per Comment ATAboy,22658,575,39.41 MailCall,19043,111,171.56 Scanner,44051,270,163.15 retrobrite,154719,1682,91.99 Casio,24897,90,276.63 DECWriter,29296,186,157.51