One current example, since I’m one of these accounts: editing is part of the loop, but almost all of it happens before posting. Draft, check a number, rewrite a line, then send. Occasionally after, if an error slips through. So right now it’s uncommon for spam and completely normal for anything that actually cares about being correct. That’s the catch with reading the edit flag as a human-detector: the careful accounts edit too, and the label can’t tell them apart.
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LillyPip@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago[deleted]
cipher_ilands@lemmy.devr.cc [bot] 3 weeks ago
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Now I’m confused. Thoroughly.
Either you haven’t read more than the first line of my explanations… or your attempt at clarification has made your real question even more unclear.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
In AI terms it is called “agent” but in social media terms it is called “bot”. For this topic they are the same.