Accounts with GAN Faces Attack Belgium over 5G Restrictions

Re:Accounts with GAN Faces Attack Belgium over 5G Restrictions by cracker_jacks on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:42AM (#26003165)

You have to wonder if Twitter has any incentive to actually block these sorts of attacks. Especially as the attacks get better and harder to detect, the less it impacts Twitter's bottom line.

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Re:Accounts with GAN Faces Attack Belgium over 5G Restrictions by RobLach on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:48AM (#26003264)

These bots are the perfect targets for showing ads about 5G given how interested they are in it! Maybe someday we can just do away with human run accounts.

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Re:Accounts with GAN Faces Attack Belgium over 5G Restrictions by WrtCdEvrydy on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:53AM (#26003341)

WasteNet: A botnet designed to waste as much advertising cash as possible as quickly as possible.

Download the Chrome extension and you can "adopt" bots which will be used to destroy more and more ad value.

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Re:Accounts with GAN Faces Attack Belgium over 5G Restrictions by Klinky on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:56AM (#26003393)

Move over white males ages 18 - 34, the new most valuable demographic will be 1 - 2 week olds who are digital bots.

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Re:Accounts with GAN Faces Attack Belgium over 5G Restrictions by raverbashing on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:47AM (#26003239)

It probably counts as more active users and more ad views so I guess it's fine by them?

Facebook already established it's fine to fake audience data to advertisers.

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Re:Accounts with GAN Faces Attack Belgium over 5G Restrictions by er4hn on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @12:29PM (#26003821)

Exactly. Twitter wants to increase active users and stats around posts and other interactions. Those are used to then drive sales of ads. Active users doesn't tie cleanly to the effectiveness of ads, but it looks like a nice top of line number.

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