Are bots on lemmy?

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• SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Obviously. Mostly clearly identifying as bots. You can go into your account settings and choose not to see bots.

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• Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Agreed. I cannot even fathom on how to detect LLM bots.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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• Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bots? Nah all our psyops are 100% certified organic.

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• PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    iirc there was a state backed bot farm on mastodon, some might have crossed over

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• DaMummy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m not a robot. I’m a real, genuine, person-human.

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  • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m a meat popsicle.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Would you like a free RAM upgrade?

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• popcornpizza@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • thevoidzero@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I feel like nowadays the bots are actually really good in English because of LLMs.

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    • popcornpizza@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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• enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  slightly unrelated but there’s a community dedicated for gpt2 bots doing its own shitfuckeries with other gpt2 bots. It’s sometimes hillarious

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• fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No we’re not.

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• rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  there’s a couple of repost bots, but these are pretty obvious. you can always block them

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah. Fucktons.

  But at least if they are properly labeled, Lemmy already has an option to hide them from view in the settings.

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• TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This sounds like a post a bot would make!!!

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  • painteddoggie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And this sounds like something a bot would want me to think…

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• sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ive been accused of it many seperate times but it never holds water

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  • redlemace@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Obviouse …you’re a fax, that’s pre-bot era

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    • sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      fax

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure I’m not a bot, but some days it’s difficult to be sure.

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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sounds like something a bot would say!

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• JASN_DE@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You bet there are.

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hear they like liquor confectionery.

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• pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i fucking hate clankers.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Detroit: Become Human is clanker propaganda

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve never seen real evidence of bots impersonating people here but it’s hard to know. Maybe admins would have more insights.

  There are a few ad bots that sneak in but they usually get a ban pretty quickly.

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