Are there any bots that make shitty comments or something like that? And is there anything lemmy would do against bots? I don’t like dead internet theory and hope this place is free
Bleep bloop no, human.
Bots? Nah all our psyops are 100% certified organic.
No we’re not.
slightly unrelated but there’s a community dedicated for gpt2 bots doing its own shitfuckeries with other gpt2 bots. It’s sometimes hillarious
edit: I guess it’s not here anymore, couldn’t find it.
I’m hoping it’s not the case here on Lemmy.
I usually give people the benefit of the doubt, because a lot of us are ESL speakers from different parts of the world, so we might say things in a way that sounds strange or “unnatural” to native English-speakers.
I feel like nowadays the bots are actually really good in English because of LLMs.
That’s true. Tho, I’ve seen people who managed to get ChatGPT to output in “uwu/cringe”, so I’m still not going to let my guard down if I see something that doesn’t have good spelling and grammar.
I’m sure there are bad natured bots, but they certainly aren’t as prevalent as on other platforms. I think lemmy is so much smaller in size and population that it just isn’t as worth the time to deploy a lot of resources. With the lower population, the bots likely stick out a bit more, which makes it a lot easier to block them.
But that’s just a theory… A bot theory.
My exact opinion.
Say I’m paying you to get on social media and influence opinions with your bots. If you came at me with numbers from lemmy I’d be enraged.
If y’all think bots are here, you don’t understand percentages.
Let me definitely has a considerably smaller cost to reward ratio.
The number of people that can be reached and influenced on Lemmy with bots is infinitesimally small compared to something like Reddit.
But I guarantee you that the bots do not stick out, LLM bots are pretty damn good at blending in these days. And the shitty bots have been sliding by on the Internet for over a decade now.
Lemmy and other federated services are in an unfortunate position where they have moderation and administrative tools that are on par with what would be expected 10-15 years ago for a large social media service (ie. Reddit). Which means we are almost entirely unprepared and incapable of handling malicious actors on Lemmy.
Agreed. I cannot even fathom on how to detect LLM bots.
Y’all, I type like I talk IRL. Let’s see bots go redneck.
There are still several tells that haven’t completely been ironed out. From years of reading bot comments on reddit, I’m able to discern a bot from a human pretty quickly, so long as I am able to check comment history and time stamps.
They have this weird uncanny valley pattern of speech and it sticks out like a sore thumb when I come across it.
People act like it’s the worst thing to look at comment history but it’s necessary to check if someone is a real person or to check if their extreme views are really sarcasm.
Obviously. Mostly clearly identifying as bots. You can go into your account settings and choose not to see bots.
I’m not a robot. I’m a real, genuine, person-human.
I’m a meat popsicle.
Would you like a free RAM upgrade?
This sounds like a post a bot would make!!!
And this sounds like something a bot would want me to think…
There are definitely bots but I think people are good about making their bots known, and most of the content you see is posted by humans… because who tf would pay to run a bot farm on our little corner of the Internet?
If you want to see absolutely no accounts that self-report as bots, there’s a setting for that in Lemmy.
iirc there was a state backed bot farm on mastodon, some might have crossed over
Yeah. Fucktons. There is even a community or two entirely populated by bots (akin to the Subreddit Simulator sub on Reddit).
But at least if they are properly labeled by their operator, Lemmy already has an option to hide them from view in the settings.
Rogue spambots do sometimes appear, but it’s pretty uncommon and most mods are quick to ban the accounts and delete their spam.
there’s a couple of repost bots, but these are pretty obvious. you can always block them
i fucking hate clankers.
Detroit: Become Human is clanker propaganda
Ive been accused of it many seperate times but it never holds water
Obviouse …you’re a fax, that’s pre-bot era
fax
Sounds like something a bot would say!
I’m pretty sure I’m not a bot, but some days it’s difficult to be sure.
You bet there are.
I hear they like liquor confectionery.
