What is up with the loads of follows from accounts that all ha e some version of this same woman as the profile pic? Some have half a dozen random reposts. All follow thousands with only a handful who follow "her." I get tons of follows from this kind of account daily. WTF?
porn bots?
I figured that, but no porn anything in their bio or feed.
Yes, a few a day. First I started to follow to see if they were porn bots. But no DMs, so not porn bots. Then I started blocking. Then follow and mute. Now I do all three. The one thing that is true for all of them is they are young Asian women, probably Chinese spies.
Bots. I clean them out almost daily. I want real people to be connected to, not numbers.
Ditto. I'm thinking maybe AI training bots?
Same. I figure it’s bots or hookers lol
I always check to see if it is another porn account, but it never is. So very odd.
Always different account names but with a certain naming pattern/convention, not certain - newly noticed, in that the names seem remarkably normal, previous iterations of such bots were mostly data harvesters but there's AI behind this one so it's likely more targeted.
... and if the accompanying imagery is AI generated it's top tier!! Best I'd have seen, will pay more attention now, curious now.
See if you notice any timing clustering. There's human effort here, it's testing while avoiding rate limits - suggests operational discipline rather than pure automation.
I will start tracking it.
Also, attention to the naming, if it's being localised globally (I feel like my dumbass brain picked up on several being typically Irish names, male and female) that's a flag in and of itself.
Platforms often look for burst patterns. Spreading follows across a predictable window makes each individual account look more human-like to automated detection.
This feels like infrastructure being built for something larger rather than immediate monetisation. The data they're collecting about social graphs and engagement patterns has significant value for future influence operations.
Yup, same!