Media Hacking

Just the effort put into the long play there is interesting. A lot of mentions of "Russian" bots. Does it mean these are all Russian or just that Russians have good quality BaaS (Bots As A Service).

Clearly it showed the effort didn't work as well. I wonder if that is just a call to action for bot operators. Enlist AI experts to create an army of intelligent sock puppets. That can actually have personalities, interests, can harvest pictures and modify or crop them to make them unique.

It would be ironic if a more advanced AI evolved from collaborating Twitter socket puppet accounts instead of from universities or self driving cars.

the app will post tweets to your account—the content of which is decided by someone in ISIS’s social-media operation. The tweets include links, hashtags, and images, and the same content is also tweeted by the accounts of everyone else who has signed up for the app, spaced out to avoid triggering Twitter’s spam-detection algorithms

How ISIS Games Twitter

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/isi...