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		chippiewill on April 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B... > Removing and preventing the creation of this type of account would not even require "AI". It wouldn't require _Machine Learning_, the kind of filtering approach you've just described would absolutely constitute AI.

once_inc on April 16, 2022 | [–]

Calculating the levenshtein distance from users, the average difference between the avatars, and looking at basic interactions in reply-to-reply-to-users isn't AI. That's heuristic. And it should have been implemented ages ago.

prvc on April 16, 2022 | [–]

Call it what you will, but the point is it would be easy for them to do.

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