If this were truly the case, then bots wouldn't be a problem!
More narrowly, I buy that this is true for some segment of the tweeting population. I know this is provocative, but removing those false positives from Twitter may be a good thing.
I have a Twitter account that I use very casually (1 tweet/month, maybe), and I'm 100% sure that my activity is not replicable by a bot.
I'd no longer call myself an expert, but I used to work in conversational AI and have kept up with the research. The latest language models are incredibly exciting, but they're still not at the level where they can simulate a non-braindead tweeter.
The above is more of an amusing thought experiment than an actually-feasible approach. Aggressive removal of botlike users would have to be opaque enough that it'd cut against the free speech objective that Musk has been promoting. But I will say that, at a smaller-scale, the best communities I've ever participated in have had incredibly strong content neutrality norms alongside robustly-enforced civility norms.
More narrowly, I buy that this is true for some segment of the tweeting population. I know this is provocative, but removing those false positives from Twitter may be a good thing.
I have a Twitter account that I use very casually (1 tweet/month, maybe), and I'm 100% sure that my activity is not replicable by a bot.
I'd no longer call myself an expert, but I used to work in conversational AI and have kept up with the research. The latest language models are incredibly exciting, but they're still not at the level where they can simulate a non-braindead tweeter.
The above is more of an amusing thought experiment than an actually-feasible approach. Aggressive removal of botlike users would have to be opaque enough that it'd cut against the free speech objective that Musk has been promoting. But I will say that, at a smaller-scale, the best communities I've ever participated in have had incredibly strong content neutrality norms alongside robustly-enforced civility norms.