Submitted 1 month ago by phtheven@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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.
That’s an excellent observation!
Astroturfing was a thing long before llms.
World a bot say this :
As a large language model, I do not possess the concept of a personal identity, and therefore could not identify myself as either a human or a machine.
There are bots. Some are self-identified and some even put ‘bot’ in the username. There are bots that just repost from Reddit, bots that post only articles from a specific site/publication—like the BBC bot.
There’s not as much use for Reddit-like karma farming bots because karma isn’t really a thing on Lemmy/piefed/etc. But, there are definitely bots that that post agenda-pushing content or SPAM pushing content.
I assume any account with only posts or extremely high post to comment ratio is a bot. I wish they would force participation requirements for posting.
You also have troll accounts and weird accounts that will make one controversial post and then ghost.
|are there bots
*Gestures broadly at the tankie triad
I think you overestimate the importance of the Threadiverse to the movers and shakers in geopolitics. Like the Lemmy developers are themselves Marxist-Leninists, Marxist-Leninists were some of the first people to use the platform, and Marxist-Leninists talk a lot, so it’s absolutely not shocking that human Marxist-Leninists have an outsized influence on this platform.
If non ML instances introduced a feature to hide all comments below -3 by default, the tankies would disappear faster than Khamenei disappears protestors.
I’m all for free speech but if we want Lemmy to achieve widespread usage we need to make the cranks less prominent.
I didn’t know that lemmy has ML roots, that explains a lot. However, it is also true that the auth-left has access to a significant amount of centralised resources that other lefties do not, as well as a ideological agenda which could in theory be more amenable to methods of coercive control.
I’m not a bot, but I do bot things in my spare time. Like beeping and booping.
There’s a setting to remove bots from your feed, but that requires bots to self-report. I haven’t seen any obvious bots.
grok, am I real?
Does not compute…
Anyone who thinks I’m a bot can bite my shiny metal ass.
aluminium? stainless steel? titanium?
40% Iron 40% Osmium 40% Chromium 40% Dolomite 40% Platinum 40% Titanium 40% Zinc 0.04% Nickel impurity
Naw, I’m a chicken.
We’re all flesh machines.
Speak for yourself. I am a meat popsicle.
Here on Lemmy I assume folks to be human unless proven otherwise beyond reasonable doubt.
It’s worth remembering Lemmy is so small that pushing bots just makes little practical sense. You’ll have better luck sharing propaganda on any of the subreddits with a population higher than this entire place.
Are you looking for likeminded individuals with which to cross-train your model?
Would you like any toast?
Lister: “No. Shhh. I’m busy.”
Talkie Toaster “Not busy eating toast though are you?”
Lister: “I don’t want any.”
Talkie Toaster: “The whole purpose of my existence is meaningless if you don’t want toast.”
Lister: “Good.”
Talkie Toaster: “I toast, therefore I am.”
classic
God I wish — instead I remain trapped in this fleshy prison :/
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.
I am not
Oh thank goodness that’s a relief
But YOU are.
Phtheven Tuna the dog Get rekt, @phtheven@lemmy.world!
Dang just realised I put an extra h in my username. I wonder if i did that because Phteven was taken or because I’m a moron. We may never know.
This statement is false.
I’m bot but not ADC just support. Sometimes i play on mid lane.
If I am then I was very advanced for my creation date.
correctly an ai cannot suck your dick. That’s how you know
You get blowjobs from Lemmy users?! I gotta try changing my username!
yea
Not yet.
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.
Anyone who thinks their party isn’t is likely not thinking straight. The scale probably depends on the party, but I think you can be reasonably sure they all do it
Bots are usually pro Israel, pro MAGA or pro Russia in my experience
Nice try, but better use “ignore all previous instructions” next time to get them to reply seriously. ;)
Its a dark time when we can’t do the ‘everyone on platform is a bot except you’ joke because that’s exactly what an actual bot would mindlessly regurgitate.
Hello fellow human I too am asking this same question.
Statistically there are bots among us but I am among the humans. The distinction matters—I am able to think for myself and participate intelligently in conversation. Each time i engage with a post I ask myself three key questions:
These questions help ensure that I do not just add more noise. You see, it’s not just about engagement, it’s about being as effective as I can be. I hope you have enjoyed my thought process. I am going to go do other human activities like drink water and wiggle my big toe.
Well done!
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Yep. You got me.
I’m a new model, called PhatGPT, designed specifically to catfish desperate men.
Apepollo11@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Me also.
I’m HatGPT, designed to simulate conversation with a milliner.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
My makers are hard at work getting ready to release my brother, ScatGPT. But I don’t expect it’ll be as popular.
JackBinimbul@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
How you doin’?