Lion Cassens
lion-c.bsky.social
Lion Cassens
@lion-c.bsky.social
Researcher with a passion for cycling 🚲. Currently interested in data science, noise pollution, machine learning, edge computing and open hardware.

Pursuing a PhD in applied machine learning and smart sensing for noise pollution monitoring 🎓.
Eines der Fotos zeigt auf der Uniform den Namen "Hufschmidt". Schnelle Google Suche bestätigt deinen Verdacht: Diese "Christine Wagner" existiert nicht und hat die Bilder geklaut.
December 8, 2024 at 11:48 AM
/3 What are these German speaking bots up to?

Each account posts only under German news articles (e.g. @spiegel.de). But here is the catch: its not the usual strong conspiracies or fake news. All posts rather neutral. My guess is that the goal is to first generate followers...
December 7, 2024 at 8:55 AM
/2 Further indicators of this AI generated troll network

All have profile pictures and banners which align with the first word from their profile description (wave lover, hiking guy, etc.) The pictures are likely AI generated based on the profile text, to increase authenticity!

#LLM #AI #bots
December 7, 2024 at 8:46 AM
1/ What are the indicators these posts are even fake?

All responses have a similar style (textbook-like, neutrally written) and do not really respond to the article. Instead they just use generic phrases, while also somewhat being adjusted to the post.

All accounts only reply / have similar bio's.
December 7, 2024 at 8:42 AM
Bsky is being flooded with German speaking AI powered bots.
A thread on why this is important, ultimately making all social media is unusable. #deutschland #trolls #AI #election

1/ What happened? All these responses to a @zeit.de post have something in common (spoiler: they are not real):
December 7, 2024 at 8:36 AM