X says it found and took down a Chinese bot farm posting anti-AI data center content to thousands of followers
- An X investigation just found 200k Chinese bot accounts, including 200 posting anti-AI content
- The posts were targeting and amplifying legitimate US citizen concerns about data centers
- Is this part of a Chinese effort to slow down American innovation, to race ahead?
X's Global Government Affairs account has revealed it "identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts," 200 of which "posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy."
Some of the narratives that these 200 accounts were promoting included that: AI data centers are pushing up household electricity prices, rapid data centre construction is placing excessive strain on the US grid, and ordinary households are subsidising wealthy AI and data center companies.
Among the post types were visual, cartoon-like illustrations depicting data center operators getting rich, while consumers picked up the cost.
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