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Bot: “Reddit is nothing but bots.”
Bot 2: “Troll. Reported.”
“The year is 2052. The 2 remaining bot farms are actively involved in the 4th Great Bot War. We continue to stay
undergroundoffline as the war ravages the once-thriving internet.”
Absolutely! Real people! Real, actual humans!
Should be a bot sitting behind the table
I don’t see the difference.
The platform sucks anyways and it’s only a matter of time before it self-destructs, looking forward to it and they’ll blame lemmy or someone else of sabotage, pricks.
Nah Lemmy has got bots too. I’m sure there’s instances without. But any general instance with any communities around news or politics will have bots.
There’s a difference between news posting bots, fun bots for running gags, etc on one side and bots posing as legitimate users on the other side.
Oh I meant specifically troll / disinformation bots in comments. Not automatic news posts or something.
And I guess it depends on what you define as a bot. Is a 50 cent army guy a bot if it’s still a human copy-pasting and writing disinformation?
I was speaking about bots as a piece of software, not about bots like an insult.
The nice part is that Lemmy admins like myself can crowdsource bot bans across federated instances.
That’s not just a realization; it’s a powerful insight!
What’s a Linkedin bot doing here?
Chat is that you?
God. I hate it so much.
Chowderhead doesn’t deserve a meme. Here are Shredder, Bluey, and Calvin to use instead :
Can’t forget that one!
We need more Lower Decks memes.
Imposter! Thats not Mariner, her sleves are to rolled down.
Sir (or ma’am) I’ll have you know that is Bandit, not his young daughter Bluey
Love me some Bandit.
“Now how to act pregnant?”
wife rolls up newspaper in preparation
The whole show is a masterpiece.
Indeed. I love it when a kids show is also funny or even has lessons for adults too.
Thank you and corrected.
Beep boop. Fuck you, assface.
This meme template really needs to die!
And the remaining humans are just training their replacements according to this depressing chart.
They’re using Reddit as a source. My, they’ll be in quite a surprise when the LLM finishes training.
it’s sad, because when you’re an expert in a field you know just how wrong reddit can be, while being so adamant and cohesive in insisting on being right.
I know it’s no secret that AI gets shit wrong but… maybe they’re trained on wrong things too
Kind of ironic that LLMs are using bots to skim sites that are filled with bots, to generate responses.
It pretty much means that LLM’s will permanently sound like people who commented on reddit from about 2010-2022
MilleniAI
Sometimes it’s me arguing with bots. It’s probably also sometimes other people not arguing with me because they think I’m a bot.
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I saw a mudcrab today.
I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow to the knee.
We need bots. The real people are even more depressing.
We need bots. The real people are even more depressing.
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I hope it won’t be the bots from character AI, though 😆
At least on Lemmy people are real
We may be generally in the clear right now, but don’t assume that any particular forum or social medium is immune to being hijacked by astroturfing or botting
I’ve seen a bot or two, I don’t think we are in the clear.
The latest one I saw was using a vision model so it’s able to comment on photos and memes. I should have taken a screen shot of that one, it had clearly misunderstood the meme and gave a definition of what a balloons is because of it (the memes was about cops always shooting the black balloons).
Interesting. I’d like to know more about this if you can provide any further info (ex. what community or instance was the post on, how recently was the bot comment).
I’ve definitely seen a number of sus accounts but they’re usually few and far between, and oftentimes get addressed immediately. There is a problem with how bad actors can join so many different instances or create instances of their own to cause problems.
EDIT: I think I’ve found it. Doesn’t seem to be a full on bot account but the comment is AI slop that a human probably chose to comment for whatever reason
Yes, that is the one.
Seems like a nonsense reply to copy paste into a comment section from an llm, it really has nothing to do with the conversation. I figure a human would have re-read it.
That being said, I took a look at his other comments and it does seem a bit too elaborate for a bot, even though they are mostly on the short and simple side. You can never really know though, it is definitely possible to build hyper intelligent agentic commenting bots.
I’m a bit paranoid about it, and also thought the user himself had removed the comment (my app just says “removed”, it doesn’t say by a mod). It’s why I don’t name drop or throw out accusations, it’s very very hard to prove even when it is true. I was going to send it to you in a dm which is when I saw the edit.
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Not what I mean.
I’m saying it is easy to create something that would appear to be an actual human. The context window can be hundred of thousands of words, so it’s easy to give it the whole article linked in the post, as well as the whole thread, and other threads pulled from reddit and other forums, just to help it make a reply that could easily fool someone. It’s also easy to instruct it and train it to speak like a normal social media user.
You can also have it basically re-verify what it says, and include other bots who’s job is solely to catch gpt-isms, nonsensical replies, refusals, etc. It would basically be a system with multiple different bots (maybe dozens) reiterating on it and having specific jobs.
You can make hundreds of replies and have an other bot rank them so you only put out only a few of the most believable ones every day.
In this day and age, you kind of need to assume you might be being manipulated. There is no technical barrier to this anymore.
