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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

The amount of people spamming ‘deepseek’ on YouTube comments and live streams is insane. Definitely have a shit load of shadow funding

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (4 children)

While I tend to avoid conspiracy theory type thinking, the nature of modern social makes it very easy to run astroturfing/botting campaigns. It's reasonable to be suspicious.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Bot campaigns seem pretty cheap when your business is making chat bots

[–] Imgonnatrythis 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or if you have access to click farm type propoganda resources

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Or you're a government with endless funds at your disposal.

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