Comment by testdelacc1
5 days ago
Fair question. The answer is that they didn’t bother hiding it. They literally posted in a whole bunch of Iranian subReddits and only Iranian subReddits. On this thread they were claiming they were British. Literally the first post of that kind, completely different to everything they had posted previously.
The clincher was that they deleted their account as soon as I pointed they were Iranian.
I’m going to guess they bought a Reddit account from someone without looking at the past history on the account.
Obviously this is not what the posting history of a state-sponsored disinformation actor looks like.
Obviously.
Please tell us why an account with a history of posting on Iranian subs was masquerading as a British person, getting British people riled up at 4am BST? And why did they delete the account immediately after this was pointed out?
State sponsored doesn’t necessarily mean they’re highly competent.
People forget there are certain special interest groups and even individuals that have more resources to back such a campaign than many nation states. One such individual regularly promises his followers to change the results of his own LLM to match their beliefs, regardless of original training data.
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