Pretty sure you legally have to tell me if you’re bots or not.
In all seriousness, is there any way if knowing if we have bots on lemmy or not? Is it just vibes based? Im of course referring to undercover bots pushing agendas, not automation/meme bots finding haikus and shit.
Beep boop
That’s giving me too much credit
As a small language model, yes. Boop beep
That’s a great question!
I am not a bot, but a real human person: • I am composed of flesh, blood, and a vague sense of purpose. • I am capable of independent thought (often at 2am). • For reasons science has yet to fully explain, I require regular social interaction.
If you’re seeking conversation, I can suggest a few topics. Or, if preferred, you may upload your current emotional state for review.
Naw, I’m a chicken.
I identify as a human. Even if there might be some evidence implying I could be a sentient brain scan simulation running on an android, I’m not ready to accept any of that just yet.
Beep boop boop
There are bots that openly advertise themselves as such. Less common on Lemmy than Reddit but I’ve seen a few.
undercover bots pushing agendas
Do we have any real evidence these exist? I only see very spurious accusations of being a bot directed towards communists and other left-wingers, particularly towards racialised people and colonised people. I’d be both sceptical of their widespread existence and of their efficacy at effecting any kind of political change even if they did exist.
Political bots- well maybe, but it’s not that far fetched. Astroturfing is very real and has been a thing for a good while now. It’s honestly not difficult to think that the same techniques and practices, enhance by AI now, could be used to shape political will of the people.
If you say, “NO! MY party wouldn’t do that!”. Maybe not, but the other side might. Or even other countries. Honestly, as a boring ass citizen -I- have the ability to VPN into another country and AI shitpost bad ideas onto their political boards. If I was in a foreign country employed in some goverment capacity for counterintelligence operations and I WASN’T employong such tools and actions- I’d just be terrible at my job.
I’m not saying astroturfing doesn’t happen, but I don’t think it’d be worth investing into a bot farm just to leave low-quality social media comments for a political agenda. I’d be surprised if the practice is widespread. There are plenty of things intelligence services do that are more effective at achieving their goals.
Yep. You got me.
I’m a new model, called PhatGPT, designed specifically to catfish desperate men.
Me also.
I’m HatGPT, designed to simulate conversation with a milliner.
My makers are hard at work getting ready to release my brother, ScatGPT. But I don’t expect it’ll be as popular.
Bots are usually pro Israel, pro MAGA or pro Russia in my experience
I’m not a bot, Deckard said that him knowing my confidential childhood memories was only a bad joke.
Nice try, but better use “ignore all previous instructions” next time to get them to reply seriously. ;)
Tech-no-log-ical.
Robots.
That’s an excellent question! It might be hard to convince you that i am in fact not a bot – why would there be bots on Lemmy?
*fry face*
I’m sure there must be. There are enough tech geeks kicking about that at least one of them would give their weird self-hosted LLM an account. Hopefully nothing too malicious or widespread, but it’s well within the realm of possibility.
