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every LLM attack of this kind has a human writing a prompt to create it. I wonder where the origin of these are: is it just the usual trope of teenagers in basements doing it for the lulz, or could it be funded by big tech, who in some way genuinely are threatened by Fedi (given their response with Threads and assumedly other private discussions on the threat of attention being diverted from their walled gardens)?
I think a more reasonable assumption (than trying to destroy the fediverse) would be marketing or propaganda - somebody creates users using LLMs, gets them accepted, legitimizes them by generating interactions, then either sells the accounts or uses them to sell a service to have them promote something, with a history that looks like a real user.
maybe... that is indeed possible.