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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.
The 41 accounts in this botnet were created April 6-15, and have been steadily ramping up their output since. They mostly tweet via automation service dlvr(dot)it, but a significant minority of traffic is potentially organic tweets sent via the Twitter website.
What do these accounts tweet? The automated tweets are links to Spanish-language news sites, blogs, and videos, while the tweets sent via the website are mostly retweets. Since we lack familiarity with Argentina, we aren't going to speculate as to the purpose of this network.
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"Antifa" and "Soros" have been trending perennially since the beginning of the protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd, as #MAGA Twitter accounts exploit the situation to advance various narratives about leftist violence and paid protestors. #AltWankers

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Here's a self of oddly similar new(ish) accounts. Each uses the same image for both banner and avataer, each has an account name ending in two digits, and each was created in 2020. #WednesdayWisdom

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