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We've been testing this technique for detecting AI-generated face pics out on various sets of accounts over the last couple of days, and it's caught some fish here and there. #ManyFishBites
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We ran our algorithm on profile pics of 2255 accounts created in 2019 or 2020 that have tweeted recently via automation service dlvr(dot)it. Among the 100 images with the highest scores, 15 are indeed AI-generated faces, mostly used on accounts created in April 2020. 
The dlvr(dot)it bots with AI-generated face pics created in April 2020 have some other things in common too: Spanish-language tweets and profile locations in Argentina. By searching for other accounts with these traits we found 41 accounts that appear to be part of the network.
On January 13th, 2020, shortly before midnight Pacific time, our good friend @DrunkAlexJones debuted the hashtag #FishingForRobots in order to, well, fish for robots. #ThursdayThoughts #ManyFishBite
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cc: @ZellaQuixote
@DrunkAlexJones @ZellaQuixote We used three different tools (Hypefury, Crowdfire, and TweetDeck) to schedule @DrunkAlexJones #FishingForRobots tweetstorms at roughly midnight PST on seven recent occasions. 91 additional accounts picked up the hashtag, 76 of which are at least mostly automated.
@DrunkAlexJones @ZellaQuixote We designed #FishingForRobots tweets to attract bots, and evolved them several times over the course of the experiment. The first set of tweets (sent via Hypefury) contained hashtags we knew from previous experience would likely result in bots retweeting or cloning the tweets.
