It’s not paranoia. The internet is legitimately dying.
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webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoI’ve wondered about this.
I cant believe that somehow everything except lemmy got infected. There must exist some ai comments here but i have not noticed them…
Of course its better not do dwell on this to much or paranoia quickly sets in.
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Death internet theory, i know it well.
And yet i keep going back, exactly because i look for a way to distraction from my troubles.
dzsimbo@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Or maybe even take a step back. Dead internet theory is real and we’re living it, but just because the main subreddits and FB are ai schlock doesn’t mean Lemmy is the only ‘real’ place.
I feel the hardest part is keeping my senses about me when I argue with hivemind mentality. You will probably get a feeling from my writing, that I too embraced the hive speak and mind. And this is where the bots get the everyperson. Bots speak in hivemind and meme format. I think this whole kerfuffle will do wonders for real online discussion, as low-effort discussions will be dismissed as white noise.
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ngl, that last paragraph felt like some pseudo-prodigal word vomit that only an AI would produce.
dzsimbo@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Exactomundo!
The only reason that last paragraph ain’t outright ai garbage (besides my elegant use of ‘everyperson’, mind you) is that there is a semi-original though buried at the end of it. This paragraph is odacious, so point taken.
SparroHawc@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Oh, I’m sure there are bots on Lemmy too. The general userbase, however - of people who are sick of Reddit’s BS - are also going to have very little tolerance for bot BS, so the instances are incentivized to try to keep bot activity down lest they be de-federated.
thiseggowaffles@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Plus they don’t see ad revenue, so there’s no profit incentive to keep bots around acting as if they’re real traffic. If anything, Lemmy instances are disincentivized from allowing bot traffic because it means more traffic than necessary, which costs them bandwidth.