{"id":3583,"date":"2016-04-21T00:40:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T00:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2016-04-21T00:40:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T00:40:16","slug":"night-of-the-trollbot-charlies-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/21\/night-of-the-trollbot-charlies-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Of The Trollbot – Charlie’s Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[The author makes the common mistake of believing that Deep Learning Is Magic (flavor of the day: regret-based learning is magic), but it’s still a very interesting post. -egg]<\/p>\n

Swarms of real life, human trolls have already been able to achieve some remarkable things.<\/p>\n

For example, there’s the well-known incident where Time’s Man Of The Year Poll met 4chan<\/a>. Twice.<\/p>\n

But real-life trolls have to sleep. They have to eat. Whilst it might not look like it, they get tired, and angry, and dispirited.<\/p>\n

Chatbots don’t.<\/p>\n

And the only limit to the number of trollbots you can control is the amount of processing power they require. That might initially look like a pretty major limiter, given that machine-learning applications tend to require at least a single graphics card of some power each. But a), thanks to cloud computing that’s actually pretty affordable – an Amazon GPU instance on Spot Pricing will cost you $0.13 an hour or a little over 2 dollars a day – and b) there’s no reason that one instance of the trollbot software can’t control hundreds of social media accounts all posting frantically.<\/p>\n

So what does this mean?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: Rise Of The Trollbot – Charlie’s Diary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[The author makes the common mistake of believing that Deep Learning Is Magic (flavor of the day: regret-based learning is magic), but it’s still a very interesting post. -egg] Swarms of real life, human trolls have already been able to achieve some remarkable things. For example, there’s the well-known incident where Time’s Man Of The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-VN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3585,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions\/3585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}