>>13023249>I honestly doubt that bots which generate their own text are all that common. However, I believe automation platforms mostly driven by humans (with some generative/templating aid) are probably super prevalent. The bots are kind of the "plumbing" and force multiplier for such platforms and services, but humans are still most of the brains of it, I think.And to elaborate, think of it as abstracting away a lot of the busy work of continuously setting up, maintaining, and legitimatizing accounts, as well as "signal boosting" things
The automation does all the boring legwork, and one or more human operators just gets a high-level abstraction interface where they pretty much just have a text input, a template creation form, cohort selection options, propagation/astroturfing settings, and a few other things
So the human operators get to spend 99% of their time crafting the actual messages and strategy while the bots execute the propagation end-to-end. And money doesn't need to be spent on as many support staff to do all the infrastructure/legitimizing stuff the bots can do. Most of that money would probably instead be going to a much smaller number of high-paid programmers and technical operations staff
