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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by prvc on Saturday April 16, 2022 @03:36AM (#31050436)
Some scammers who appear in Musk's replies impersonating him use similar or identical avatars and screen names in order to perpetrate their fraud. Removing and preventing the creation of this type of account would not even require "AI". It hasn't happened yet because Twitter lacks the will to do it, for whatever reason.
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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by chippiewill on Saturday April 16, 2022 @04:18AM (#31050618)
> Removing and preventing the creation of this type of account would not even require "AI".

It wouldn't require _Machine Learning_, the kind of filtering approach you've just described would absolutely constitute AI.

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by once_inc on Saturday April 16, 2022 @06:50AM (#31051318)
Calculating the levenshtein distance from users, the average difference between the avatars, and looking at basic interactions in reply-to-reply-to-users isn't AI. That's heuristic. And it should have been implemented ages ago.
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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by prvc on Saturday April 16, 2022 @09:59AM (#31052374)
Call it what you will, but the point is it would be easy for them to do.
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