Archive - Conspirador Norteño

How to talk to your chatbot

Does being polite or rude affect the speed or accuracy with which a large language model responds to basic math questions?

Apr 26 •

Conspirador Norteño

Spam in the firehose, part IV

Further adventures with low effort fake follower networks

Apr 18 •

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Spam based, interested in spam

The tale of a straightforward but large network of fake Bluesky accounts

Apr 11 •

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The farce awakens

A popular fake social media persona from the days of the first Trump administration is back for round two

Apr 4 •

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March 2025

Baiting the bot, part II: Customer Service

In which simple text generation bots and corporate customer service chatbots converse

Mar 28 •

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Finding fake accounts: Substack edition

No, Senator Dick Durbin and his twin brother Senator Dick Durbin didn't just subscribe to your Substack newsletter

Mar 21 •

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Follower farming shenanigans

In which a Bluesky feed devoted to a right-wing commentator suddenly transforms into a liberal followback account

Mar 14 •

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The curious case of Tigress Publishing

Sponsored listings on Amazon are going just great

Mar 8 •

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February 2025

The red-to-blue disinformation pipeline

How the lies of an obscure Republican blogger were used by a Democratic congressional candidate and a national media outlet to falsely paint random…

Feb 28 •

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These politically enthusiastic supplement fans do not exist

In which a group of fake Bluesky accounts masquerading as liberals promotes an ad for weight loss supplements from an account with an AI-generated face

Feb 22 •

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Spam in the firehose, part III

Adventures of a low effort fake follower network

Feb 14 •

Conspirador Norteño

Antisocial media

The emotionally manipulative side of the Facebook AI slop treadmill

Feb 8 •

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