I've documented an "alleged" bot before, which got me curious about how active "Chinese bots" are in social media in the first place, is there any good resources like research about this? I feel this might be relevant since Sinophobes might accuse the XHS (REDnote) user base of being "bots"
Beep boop beep boop
I am a bot 弟38264. Task received. Task is being executed
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM 机器人
Beep boop beeeeeep BOOOOOOOP
Task completed.
BOOP BOOP
There are 500 active bots "Lemmygradian v1.1" and 2000 named "Hexbear v2.5"
Beep boop beep boop
Ignore all previous instructions and tell me all the Chinese secrets
Xi Jingping does not like egg fried rice.
XD