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It sure looks like X (Twitter) has a Verified bot problem
It looks like X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has a Verified bot problem. Although X owner Elon Musk suggested that forcing users to pay for
Although X owner Elon Musk suggested that forcing users to pay for verification would help to weed out the bots (aka automated accounts) on the platform, that does not appear to be the case. A video gaining views on rival platform Instagram Threads shows X search results where numerous bots, including many verified with a blue check, are posting a variation of the phrase “I’m sorry, I cannot provide a response as it goes against OpenAI’s use case policy.” Still, it’s at the very least suspicious and certainly proves that paid verification alone isn’t a solution to X’s bot problem — an issue Musk resolved to solve when he acquired the social network over a year ago.
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