Honestly, any schmuck with a basic RPG can blow that up from more than 200 meters away with a single shot

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    NATO is sending Ukraine “superupgraded” Soviet tanks designed during World War II that don’t even have reactive armor. The move comes as tensions continue to mount between the West and Russia over the conflict in Ukraine.

    The tanks, which are being sent by the United States, are based on the T-34 design that was used by the Soviet Union during the war. They have been upgraded with new engines, armor, and guns, and are being touted as a " significant upgrade" by NATO officials.

    The move is sure to anger Russia, which has been critical of NATO’s involvement in Ukraine. It also comes at a time when the West is considering sending more military aid to Ukraine, including lethal weapons.

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      Interesting account. That comment looks completely real and on topic, even though it sounds a bit like a bot that picked paragraphs from different articles and pasted them to make a real comment.

      Here’s their application:

      The reason they were banned is because they instantly made a community for their shady premium APK site and that one sounded exactly like a spambot lol

      They also have a quora account that sounds less human than here. Half answering questions with an opening paragraph and then nothing, or just completely out of topic.

      If bots are able to start bypassing verification we’ll have to step up our game. Sigh. Just leave us alone, nobody here is gonna click your links.

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          Me too at first, but the sentences don’t appear anywhere on Google nor do they appear in the twitter thread or the forbes article.

          Maybe an ai-driven bot? I fucking hope that doesn’t exist yet.

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            It’s possible to both manually make posts and comments and do it automatically on the same account. They could have written the application manually and them started running a script once they knew they were approved.

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            Maybe an ai-driven bot? I fucking hope that doesn’t exist yet.

            That would be pretty easy to do, and I know of multiple that already exist, though not on Lemmy.

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      the West is considering sending more military aid to Ukraine, including lethal weapons.

      Lethal weapons? What have they been sending so far, marshmallow bombs?