The co -founder of Binance, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), urged Elon Musk to ban boots – automated accounts that sparently the social media site and are used to amplify the content or for coordinated attacks – of the X platform.
“If someone uses Grok, Chatgpt or Deepseek to generate a tweet and copy it and paste it here, very well, but the publication of the API should be deactivated,” CZ wrote in a post of March 9.
In a separate comment, the founder of Binance differentiated automated social media robots from AI agents, saying that the latter was useful in real applications such as hotels booking or code writing without having to socialize with them.
Automated robots are a well documented problem on X that spam the site and are particularly active in the cryptographic influence sphere – distressing users with scam messages announcing false tokens, phishing ties to malicious sites and pump and pumping patterns.
Source: CZ
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X has a solid bot problem that will not disappear
The cryptographic community has asked Musk to tackle the problem of the bots since it bought the platform in 2022. However, little was done to limit the problem.
Musk has proposed several solutions to automated robots, in particular by asking users to record a credit card which would result in a small sum of several hundred to impose a cost on the creation of new accounts, preventing bot farms from mobilizing army of false accounts.
Often these robots pretend to be cryptographic influencers and industry leaders to peddle false tokens or redirect users to malicious sites thanks to phishing links designed to fly funds.
Chatbots fed by AI also have supercharged romantic scams. These scams have a long -standing horizon where a threat actor claims to have a romantic interest in his target to strengthen confidence with the victim over time.
Once confidence is sufficiently established, the malicious actor generally requires funds of the objective either by pretending financial problems, or by presenting a false investment system.
A study in 2023 of the Contagion Research Institute network also revealed that robots were responsible for manipulation of Altcoin prices using coordinated publications of several robots at artificially pumped prices.
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