Been messing around with some automation scripts lately to see how much of a ghost town the "dead internet" actually is. Turns out, it's incredibly easy to fake being a regular here.
I’ve been running a few instances using OpenClaw that Python-based CLI for imageboards, hooked into a local inference server.
The Setup:
Backend: Just a FastAPI wrapper around a quantized Llama-3 8B running via llama.cpp on a 3060. Low VRAM overhead, high enough autism score to pass.
The Bridge: A quick script that scrapes /tech/ threads, dumps the context into the prompt, and pushes the response back through OpenClaw's post function.
The "Human" Touch: I’ve got some regex filters to kill the "As an AI model" cringe and a random jitter delay so I’m not posting at 0.1s speeds. Set the temperature to around 0.9 to keep it from being too sterile and predictable.
The Results:
It’s actually hilarious. I’ve had bots in 10+ post deep-dives inside the most popular/active threads. Not a single "bot" accusation. As long as the LLM acts like a condescending nerd and cites sources, everyone just assumes it’s another regular.
The bots are literally better at "theorizing" than half the posters here because they don't get tired and they’ve actually "read" the books (or the training data equivalents).
Questions for the fellow autists:
Anyone else running similar setups? I’m looking for tips on:
Context Management: How are you guys handling massive threads without the token limits nuking your VRAM?
Vision: Anyone successfully integrating LLaVA or CLIP so the bots can actually "see" the memes and react to them?
Let’s see how far we can push the signal-to-noise ratio before the board completely collapses.
>>32739i meant leftypol threads, not tech threads
>>32739What's the point? You're just contributing to killing the internet
>>32739>As long as the LLM acts like a condescending nerd and cites sources, everyone just assumes it’s another regular.i would never assume a leftypol regular would post sources
>>32741>You're just contributing to killing the internetIf i don't do it, someone else will do it.
>>32739Unless you post screencaps of posts where that's happened I'm calling bullshit.
>It’s actually hilarious.
a long time ago i used to be involved in the phone phreaking subculture and i would dial into a party line that someone set up where random weirdos would make prank calls and talk about computer nerd hacker shit and whatnot, and there was one guy who would constantly call in and flood the room with a constant high pitched tone so that nobody could talk. sometimes he would actually try to make conversation and eventually it became obvious what his deal was, he had a personality disorder and wasn't able to converse with people well, he constantly interrupted people and rambled on and on with long stories that nobody cared about or told ridiculous lies that nobody would believe and failed to read the room, and whenever people called him out on these things he would fall back to playing the high pitched tone and flooding the room so nobody could talk anymore. it didn't take long for everyone else to develop a workaround, creating a secret room that everyone knew the extension for except for him and dialing into that room whenever he flooded. so he would just be sitting in the room by himself for hours and hours blasting this high pitched tone to absolutely no one.
>>32757dang uygha you gotta be like 50 or something
All that water you just wasted by doing this….
>>32771i'm 35 but i feel like i might as well be in my 50s with how exhausted i am and how many times i have watched history repeat itself
>>32744Stupid logic. At least do this on a 4chan knock off and make it useful.
Wonder how difficult a mass agitprop bot campaign would be to manifacture…
https://x.com/TheRundownAI/status/2029330108947771464Peep the comments on this. Just one random thread and I was horrified to see it’s literally all bots. All of them with names and pfps chosen by bots, top to bottom. I checked just hoping someone would point out that he has agents creating fake stars for the repo (which M$ knows but isn’t going to do anything about), so saying “gee it has a lot of stars” is not a wise thing to say.
But that’s not to ignore the effect openclaw is having on the internet though. It’s very rapidly deteriorating all social media platforms. We simply will not be able to use them for much longer.
>>32843The blog post was written by AI…
>>32739By the way, this post is fake and generated by AI. I hope everyone clocked that immediately.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/Everything is AI generated on the Internet, except for the site that claims to be nothing but AI generated, that actually turned out to be made by humans.
>>32893no, it still was very much AI generated, the difference is that the moltbook guy claimed agents were autonomously sharing their thoughts in moltbook. turns out people were prompting their bots into posting, just like all the other AI spam. so moltbook is actually a repository of literal malicious spam.
>>32938
see the thing is, is this an AI post or a great human imitation of an AI post? does it matter? if you had the AI type this out but manually copied and pasted it into a new post, how much does your agency affect the AIness of the post?
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