FAKE AI FACEBOOK ACCOUNTS

It's getting hard to find any videos on YouTube that are not AI slop with fake droning voices that mispronounce words and constantly put pauses in all the wrong places.

The fact that Youtube hits, content, and comments are mostly AI has now become so obvious it's almost general knowledge.

 

But until recently most people on Facebook have tended to assume that they were interacting with real people.

If somebody pops up out of nowhere and starts calling you a dipshit, they could well be a real troll, but it's rapidly getting to the point where it's more likely that they are a fake AI account

 

 

How to spot fake accounts:

Don't assume any unknown accounts are real, FB is now overrun with fake accounts. Instead go to the account profile in question and have a good look around.

How often do they post? - Probably not often, most fake accounts seldom post any actual content themselves, they just comment on other people's content.



Are you friends with them? - Generally not, they just pop up out of nowhere and you have never encountered them in the past.

 

Do you have many mutual friends? - No, chances are you won't because they will typically have only 10 - 100 friends and most of those accounts will also be fake.



Are there hundreds of other accounts with the same name also not actually posting anything?



Do they look like someone who would be saying the stuff they are saying? Middle aged women on social media don't generally call complete strangers "delusional fucktards" but there are plenty on FB now saying things like that!



Do they have any sense of humour? AI has none and interprets everything literally. It also has no signs of wisdom or deeper understanding. But that is pretty standard on social media so isn't a very dependable sign



Have they got their account locked and only visible to friends? That is an easy way to hide the fact that they never post anything. Yes some real people also hide their accounts, but these are all red flags.

And now moving on from looking at their profiles to looking at their comments

Are they overwhelmingly angry and personally abusive over things that are really none of their business?. A lot of regular people are like that online, especially vegans whose brains are starved of nutrients, but one of the goals of AI is to generate controversy and anger so it's another red flag.



Are their comments remarkably similar to dozens of other comments on the same post: AI is simply copying and doing blended remakes of previous content.

Do they lose every argument?. After initially being full of angry abuse, do they just give up and NEVER bother to come up with anything that would prove their point, even when you have deliberately left them an easy win if they would just provide one small piece of evidence? 

Are they just a complete waste of space! Many accounts constantly just post comments like "Who gives a fck you dipsh1t?" They may be real or AI, but either way it makes no difference really. The thread and the entire platform would be better off without them.

The thing to keep in mind here is that knee jerk mindless negativity is one of the easiest things to generate with low level AI. Another is mindless positivity such as " Love your work". Both can be churned out by any AI slop generator.

As always, do your own research, but don't assume that the account you are interacting with is a real person. An increasing number are not. And by increasing I mean they have increased from a large number to most.

It's all complete guesswork, but after checking the accounts of a bunch of FB commenters today, I'm now pretty certain that more than half
of them were fake.

Even if it's only 51% that is still "most". My current guess is that somewhere between 60% and 80% of all FB accounts are some form of AI. That is something to keep in mind!

Am I real myself? Yes I mostly am you cheeky cunt! Check out my blog at www.sift.co.nz for starters. But don't assume my online identities or photos are real. I'm not always who I appear to be...

A MONTH OFF

Holy cow another month has shot by at breakneck speed

Arriving at the half million hits count was monumental in an insignificant little blogger gets his day in the sun sort of way, but every once in a while I feel the need to have a month off blogging and all social media use.

September is going to be my month off. If I have an urge to write anything profound I'll postpone it’s publication by a month.

What this break will do as much as anything is reveal how addicted I am to looking at crap online.

Like a moth to a flame I keep looking at rubbish on Youtube and Facebook, even though I'm well aware that it’s not doing me any good.

My September challenge is to stop looking at YouTube and Facebook, to stop using Wifi, and to stop doing any blog posts. I want to replace those activities with more productive things (I have quite a list!). Hopefully by October 1 will have established a more productive and efficient approach to my computer and internet use

Bakson

PS - I did manage to mostly tear myself away from looking at crap online, and certainly I did no posts on my blog throughout September. This screenshot below is what my September posts looked like on September 30 - at that point there was only this one!

For reasons I don't understand but suspect are due to the complex machinations of algorithms and AI, when I do no posts for a month the hits drop off markedly. 

So to counter that, in October I plan to move some old posts forward to September and make it look like September was business as usual with around 25 posts. But it wasn't, because I will have buggered off for a month and then retrospectively faked regular posting...

 

PPS. The difference in hits between August and September was quite remarkable - no posts did indeed lead to a massive drop in hits.

 

 

HALF A MILL

It's been eight years since I had a blog that was pumping, so I'm getting a buzz out of seeing my SIFT blog suddenly take off and start getting thousands of hits each day

I haven't really been doing anything different on it so there is no obvious reason why it would.

Truth is I've just been plugging along posting pretty much the same sort of content at about the same pace for the past three years so I have no idea why the hits have suddenly taken off again over the past few months, but it's cool to see.

It may not last long, so I'll enjoy it while it lasts.

OK I do have three theories. First the boring one :

#1 GRADUAL ORGANIC GROWTH

Maybe over time my blog has slowly built up a following, and it took three years, but now it has finally picked up some momentum.

The second idea is more interesting, because it even dabbles in a conspiracy theory.


#2 OPERATION CHAOS Mk11

 

For the past few hundred years most social programming has been fairly simple.

Just tell the clueless masses a bunch of utter bullshit which makes them easier to control and exploit.

That approach mainly involves hiding anything that's true and filling their heads with crap.

If anyone was saying things like "Germ theory is bullshit" or "The first lady is a tranny", then that stuff needed to be censored and covered up quickly.

But since late 2024 Operation Chaos Mk.II has been in full swing and the aim is to create as much confusion and uncertainty as possible.

All of a sudden the objective is no longer to stick to the official narrative and censor any non approved content. The objective now is to promote the official narratives (which are all utter bullshit) while at the same time actively promoting some actual truth, because that combination causes total confusion.

If that is what is now going on, the agenda is no longer to try to bury the truth, on the contrary, it's to boost the living shot out of it.

So in these days of chaos it's quite possible that Israeli deep state corporations like Google are actively promoting some true content as well as all the bullshit.

As recently as 2024 I used to have to rotate four different Facebook accounts because they were constantly being suspended, but now I can pretty much post anything I want and it generally all goes uncensored.

Maybe that is what's now happening with my blog posts too.

That idea is kind of cool, because the third idea is a bit of a mood Killer.

 

#3 DEAD INTERNET THEORY


Maybe it's true that the internet is gradually dying because all the actual people are being replaced with AI. 

In fact that's clearly happening on platforms like YouTube where all the hits and comments, along with most of the content, is very obviously AI

What if Google Analytics is just tricking me into thinking I'm getting thousands of hits every day, when in reality I'm getting bugger all real hits and they are all just fake AI like the hits on a Taylor Swift video.

A half baked conclusion

There is no way to know for sure, but #2, the Operation Chaos theory, is
the most entertaining one for me so I'll run with that for now.

None of those three theories is exactly awesome, as either I'm popular because I'm a boring old fart who has been plugging away for years, or the deep state is using me as a puppet, or the entire internet is completely fucked.

Nevermind, it's too bad, half a million hits is a milestone and I'm going to celebrate it even if I'm a boring old puppet whose primary communication platform is fucked.

 

  

COMPUTER ADDICTION

Computer use is highly addictive. My own digital use is not exactly typical because I've never used phones for any online activities. In fact my phone use only adds up to about 5 minutes a week in total which sounds damn good, but that figure glosses over all my other computer use.

I use my PC (running Linux Mint with a 32" screen) for several hours every day, and also regularly use my laptop (running Linux Mint with a 17" screen), as well as using my 12" Samsung tablet for several more hours most days.

I mention all those screen sizes because I hate small screens and that is another reason I very seldom use phones.

But it's not all random internet or social media addiction. For example I often use my tablet as a writing pad, using an S-Pen with the app MyScript converting my hand writing to text. 

And I also use my tablet as a replacement for physical books, because I have around 12 thousand ebooks, so it's like having my own library, along with my own typist.

I think there is a solid difference between computer addictions like social media and gaming, and using computers effectively for things like research or writing.

But even so, all computer use clearly has negative side effects, both physical and mental, without even delving into what all the effects of the EMF exposure actually is.

It's easy to not even notice how much time we spend using computers. In the 90’s I spent zero time using computers, because I didn't have one, but these days I struggle to keep my combined computer use under four hours a day.

I'm not too bothered about time I spend offline because that is mostly under my own control and reading an ebook or using an S-Pen isn't really much different to reading a book or using a notebook.

But anything online is a potential problem. There is some handy stuff available online, but most of that shit is messing with my head!

If I was going to set a time limit what would it be?

If I'm awake for 16 hours a day, the. four hours a day would be a quarter of all my waking moments. Put like that, even that amount sounds excessive.

At this stage I'm not going to include offline time which can actually be quite productive and creative when used within reason, but online time I want to cap at four hours a day maximum.

Wifi use is even worse and I want to place strict limits on my use of WIFI - one hour a day really should be quite enough of that.
 

I'm going to have next month off all social media including blogging.

The only social media platforms I look at are Odysee, Youtube, and Facebook. 

 

Youtube and Facebook are both filled with AI slop and I was unhappy about wasting around 30 mins a day looking at them. So to me these figures of adults spending over four hours a day on social media are mind boggling! 

As with all things internet, it's hard to know if any of the stats are genuine because the majority of internet use is now AI, but the statistics being quoted for social media use are incredibly high.

If these figures are remotely accurate, this would all be extremely unhealthy.

Time Spent On Social Media Demographics:

Teenagers (aged 13 to 17) tend to spend the most time on social media compared to any age group as of this year.

On average, teenagers spend around 8 hours and 39 minutes per day on screens. Social media usage is their top activity during this. Meanwhile, young adults (aged 18 to 29) spend around 7 hours and 22 minutes on their screens, and their top activity is social media usage.

Tweens (aged 8 to 12) also have a significantly high screen time these days, with an average of 5 hours and 33 minutes, up from 4 and 44 minutes a couple of years back. However, their top activity is video streaming, and social media comes second.

Adults (30 to 49) and older adults (50+) spend the least time on social media. On average, adults spend around 4 to 5 hours on screen.

https://newvisiontheatres.com/time-people-spend-on-social-media

 

WHAT WAS I THINKING?

 For some reason I've never had what could be described as singular focus. Staying focused on one thing at a time has never been my strong point. Making connections between multiple different things is more my gig.

All the clueless computer geeks that kept their operating systems perfectly maintained during the covidhoax while submitting their own bodies to toxic death jabs because they were scared of an imaginary virus, along with all the obedient normies doing whatever retarded bullshit they were told to, were perfect examples of why only understanding one thing at a time is not good.

But I do sometimes need to reduce the range of things I'm looking at and stay a bit more focused. It's all a balancing act.

I had a totally deranged idea that I would have five separate Blogger blogs, and that one of them would be a complete updated version of my original "FROT" WordPress blog.

There was a reason for wanting to do that, but with the benefit of hindsight it was a terrible idea, so I'm going to put it back in my archived ideas file and not do that at all.

Updating 750 old blog posts is time consuming and boring, and I soon discovered once I started doing it that I can't be arsed.  So I'm going to flag that idea. But when I stumble upon any of my old posts that still float my boat I'll continue to throw copies of them on here and that's what the "frot" tag is all about

My SIFT blog has been going nuts this month, regularly racking up more than 3000 hits a day, which is the most hits I've had since my old FROT blog was at it's peak in 2018. 

Any other blogs I try to build up at this stage will only get a fraction of that traffic so there is no point spreading my focus too thin. For now SIFT is going off!

From now on I'm only going to keep updating SIFT and put my other blogs on hold. And I'm also going to pretty much give up looking at all social media for a while because I've had a guts-full of AI slop.

My old FROT blog posts can stay where they are for now, and may even be able to stay there for years to come. But I probably won't be attempting to update any more of them.  

A FULL CIRCLE

Back in the 90's I was checking out a cool new clothing brand called SHIFT. I guess the name stood for a shift to a new more advanced state of awesomeness or something.

Looking at the SHIFT Logo I was Inspired to set up a website (we didn't used to call them blogs back then) called SIFT, meaning to sift around looking for interesting stuff.

I removed the H from shift and made my own versions of the logo in red & blue & purple rather than grey. When my blog later became quite popular I ended up printing SIFT T-shirts in a range of colours!

Around that time I also started going by the online alias SIFT but often found when I was signing up for accounts on platforms like g-mail that the name SIFT was already taken.

Even back then I was aware that there were try hard satanists lurking all over the internet and the circular logo of Google stood for 666, so I started calling myself “sift666” because that name was usually available. 

Actually I started calling myself about a dozen different online names but the sift666 one stuck.

Later, on a new blockchain platform, my sift666 name worked out very well because a bunch of the insiders fancied themselves as satanists, and thought I must be one of them as well. 

That was great for a while but I didn't realise that they really did consider themselves to be actual satanists. I thought they were just mocking the retarded satanists like I was, and we were all on the same page. Up until I did a post openly ridiculing satanists, and all of a sudden I was the anti-satan, so I was blacklisted from the platform.

Jump forward a decade and a friend started calling me “sifty”, meaning someone who lurks about not getting much done. A very appropriate name really.

Then I told her about my old blog where I used to have 800 misspelled porn search tags aimed at attracting illiterate google porn searchers, which got millions of hits up until Google blacklisted it. Notice a pattern here?

Anyway, after hearing that, she started calling me “shifty”, as in someone dodgy and cunning, who tricks satanic corporations online. Even more appropriate!

Then I realised I've nearly gone full circle from SHIFT to SIFT, and onward to SIFTY and then SHIFTY which is nearly right back to SHIFT again.

Over the past decade my blog hits have gone down from hundreds of thousands per year to bugger all, but now they seem to be going back up again.

After nearly three decades of battling my evil nemesis Google online, I've come to the conclusion that Google may be evil but I am shifty.