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		navs 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as... Having run a small social media SaaS for a while, the amount of AI bots (and I say AI bots because the comments and direct messages sent by them definitely read like AI), was staggering. I'm thankful for Cloudflare and I don't think I would have had the resources to deal with it any other way.
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Helloworldboy 23 hours ago [–]

You’re on a social media site filled mostly with AI bots right now. Try saying something negative about China in any thread

inigyou 14 hours ago | | [–]

If you pick Israel instead, it gets flagged much faster.

croes 19 hours ago | | [–]

China is bad and Xi looks like Winnie the Pooh

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