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> It's honestly starting to feel like paid shilling.

the companies selling Cloud are also massive IT giants with unlimited compute resources and extensive online marketing operations.

like of fucking course they're using shillbots, they run the backend shillbot infrastructure.

they literally have LLM chatbot agents as an offering, and it's trivially easy to create fake users and repost / retweet last weeks comments to create realistic looking accounts, when then shill hard for whatever their goals are.





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