https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2501.17831/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936574urn:hackerpapers:mention:2501.17831:42936574Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:28:36 GMT<p>It&#x27;s another sock puppet study: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17831 Very similar methodology to an earlier study the government cited in their case against TikTok: https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/NCRI-Report_-... There are a number of issues with these studies, one being that the way the sock puppet bots interact with content is not exactly organic. Typically they search for content in a conditioning phase, followed by random scrolling during which the recommended videos are collected and classified by an LLM. Modern recommendation algorithms famously work by examining how long…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2501.17831/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.SI