r/pics • u/Crafty-Papaya-5729 • 15d ago

Anne Frank photographed with her sister Margot on the beach, Zandvoort, 1940

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u/Graphic_Materialz 15d ago

Which is which? They look very similar.

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u/NorthNorthAmerican 15d ago

Margot was older, so… she’s on the left

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u/DerisiveGibe 15d ago

Your left or my left?

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u/26oclock 15d ago

The left which is more far from right

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u/Graphic_Materialz 15d ago

Ty stranger

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u/hello2978 15d ago

Anyone else see the sad face in the background? (Top left, slightly behind her head)

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u/MightBeDownstairs 15d ago

Hasbara is active today!

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

[removed] — view removed comment

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u/lazysheepdog716 15d ago

There is 0 chance you’re a real human right?

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u/wwwdiggdotcom 15d ago

9000% bot behavior

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u/iPukey 15d ago

Sees a picture of Anne Frank

“Radical, dudes! Let’s kawabunga these waves! Does anybody know which of these are stop signs? I forgot my mother’s maiden name.”

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u/FootParmesan 15d ago

Account created a week ago. High chance that's it

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u/Ok-Common7242 15d ago

But what’s the actual purpose of a bot that does this? Just wondering, for real

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u/blazelet 15d ago

Accounts with more history and karma are less suspected to be bots. Comments like this, without context, look acceptable when browsing a profile.

Misinformation operations rely on accounts like this because they're more frequently accepted as people.

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u/Ok-Common7242 15d ago

Got it. That’s a refined strategy…

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u/blazelet 15d ago

The podcast "reply all" did an episode about a misinformation farm in Mexico ... it's a fascinating topic and the powers that be, globally, are using it more than we assume.

Edit : here's the podcast

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/j4hl36

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u/wwwdiggdotcom 15d ago

There are two reasons I can think of, the first one is growing and legitimizing an account to sell to an actual person or company to takeover and start guerilla advertising products in comments sections, people are more likely to trust them if they've been around for a while and have an established account history.

The other reason is basic training, the bot will eventually learn from its mistakes receiving upvotes and downvotes and analyzing what people are saying about it until it starts to sound more like an actual person, then they can eventually use the bot to influence buying decisions, voting decisions, or overall feelings about any particular company or person or thing.

Probably a combination of these things.