None of these people exist, but that hasn't stopped them from spamming a variety of articles (mostly about cryptocurrency/NFT topics) onto Twitter using social media automation service Socialchief. #FridayShenaniGANs
cc: @ZellaQuixote
These accounts are part of a network of 8 accounts created over the span of roughly 5 minutes on January 5th, 2022. All 8 use GAN-generated faces as profile pics.
(GAN = "generative adversarial network", the technology used by thispersondoesnotexist.com to produce synthetic faces)
The major facial features (particularly the eyes) on unmodified GAN-generated face pics (so far) are always in the same position on the image, regardless of the angle of the face. This becomes obvious when one blends the images together.
So far, the accounts in this network have posted the majority of their content (363 of 387 tweets, 93.7%) via the Socialchief automation app. Each account posts its automated tweets at the same time(s) every day, although the times differ from account to account.
The automated tweets (sent via Socialchief) from these accounts contain links to articles on a variety of websites, most frequently investorplace(dot)com. The relatively few "organic" tweets (sent via the Twitter Web App) are mostly replies about a game called Gunstar.
This is not the first time we've run across group accounts with GAN-generated profile pics that use Socialchief to share cryptocurrency content in an automated fashion:
More on GAN-generated faces and their use on Twitter (and elsewhere) in these threads:
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