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Bots don't independently invent opinions separate from the people running them. Not even with LLMs. "Bots" are just sock puppets - people creating multiple identities for themselves so they can ballot-stuff the Court of Public Opinion.

So it's not so much that there are no real people who want to hunt down the snitch, but that there's a very loud minority of performative extremists with an army of sock puppet accounts who want to hunt down the snitch.



> there's a very loud minority of performative extremists with an army of sock puppet accounts who want to hunt down the snitch

The people running the bot armies for foreign influence operations probably do not care about hunting down the snitch, they are simply following orders to spread that message.




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