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Analysis is social media through the lens of tracking source reliability would be damned useful without AI and if that could easily be done I think it would already be. I've thought about this for about five years, thinking we could track bots and disinformation based on the patterns of who promotes/upvotes it, but it's beyond my meager means.
Human journalists already do this, though. All I'm suggesting is that these automated journalists should do likewise. That clearly wasn't the case in this particular instance.
Beep bop, I'm [citation needed] bot, a large language model. The information you referenced in your post can neither be found in official Blizzard material including release notes, nor in community wikis. Have a nice day!
I think certain places (reddit?) Have been using algorithms to find and stamp out bots/vote manipulation for quite a while. I remember at least one major wave of bans for smurfed accounts participating in manipulation.