Everyone understands that social media is the primary vector of disinformation, but if you ever try to point out this process in actual practice people act like you're talking nonsense.

Here we have a post started by some random account less than a day old which is suddenly rocketed to the top of the community.

• The OP lives in the thread full time for the entire day, not commenting anywhere else on Lemmy, and then disappears.

• This person simultaneously knows all of the anti-AI arguments by rote and also seems clueless as to why anti-AI posts get a lot of traction.

• The post is brigaded/botted, the vote:comment ratio is off, the downvoters are primarily accounts with no comment/post history (you can see upvotes and downvotes with moderation tools, they're not private).

I would bet money that if a site admin were to look into the primary participants of this thread, you'd find that they're all using VPNs. None of this on its own is suspicious, but taken all together it makes the thread very suspect.

I could be wrong, this isn't exactly an easy thing to prove even when you have server admin tools. But I participate in the community quite heavily and am a moderator of a fairly populated instance (so I can see the server logs for our instance) and this post is giving off a lot of red flags.