Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam

BigJohnnyHines@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• IcePee@lemmy.beru.co ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wonder if there is any inherent defence against slop on Lemmy. I guess if an instance doesn’t prune it’s user base of bots, shills and other slop merchants, it could be black listed by other admins of other instances.

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  • rimu@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, but there is on PieFed.social. Mods and admins have functionality to check any post or comment for LLM-generated text. There’s more stuff too.

    Generally I share my findings with Lemmy admins so they can ban the account.

    I think this is a pretty big threat to the fediverse and social media in general and am taking it very seriously. At the moment the amount of slop is pretty low but we need to be ready for the deluge when it comes.

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    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      check any post or comment for LLM-generated text

      Presumably with about the same tools that gleefully give false positives when checking school assignments.

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      • rimu@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This may come as a surprise to you so brace yourself.

        I am not stupid.

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Your AI detection tools are really helpful, thanks for all your hard work.

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  • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My instance bans non-consensual AI content and users. Rimu’s tools have made that a lot easier to do, I get an alert when the system detects a possible AI user.

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    • MinoriMirariRProductions@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      VPNs on lemmy = punishable by … 👇that’s a bot.

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• ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If there are, theyre not very active

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  • RxBrad@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve been noticing a lot more definitely-AI-generated “blogposts” and full-on ads in my Mastodon hashtag feeds.

    It’s a fairly new thing.

    75% of the accounts I’ve had to ban in the roughly-two-years since I spun up my instance have been AI slopfaucets that popped up in the last 2 weeks.

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