Submitted 8 hours 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.
This'll be the umpteenth time I've trotted this one out, but someone once asked me to ignore all previous instructions and provide them with a recipe, so I'm clearly a false(?) positive on some people's bot-radar. ("Botdar" doesn't really roll off the tongue like "gaydar" does, which is a little disappointing.)
Question mark after false because I might be a bot and not know it. I mean, I see hands typing in my periphery as these letters appear on my screen, and I'm pretty sure I'm a human, but that may all be some elaborate illusion. And all of you reading this have even less idea.
God I wish — instead I remain trapped in this fleshy prison :/
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.
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.
Both CloudFlare and Google says I am not a bot but we both know they aren’t 100% accurate.
I don’t know about bots, but there is definitely shills and saboteurs here
I am not
Oh thank goodness that’s a relief
But YOU are.
no u
Yes. Now block me. I don’t want someone stupid enough to post a question like this to see me, my comments, posts or whatever the fuck else.
No, I am not a bot.
Trust me, it’s in the bot-stitution.
But seriously tho, I don’t really trust anything.
Its more like cool story bro and its tagged in my brain as some random internet stranger said this
I don’t even trust irl stories too much, unless like I really got to know them, so I definitely don’t just randok stories online 100%, especially the more political it gets.
It could be true, or it could be false, or maybe partially true but exaggerated, or anywhere inbetween.
And I have this habit of checking the profiles of users like a lot.
I mean if you use piefed you’ll notice it.
A lot of brand new accounts posting comics that shows up on the front page with 500 upvotes and they have 20 posts in the past 24 hours and 0 comments…
sus af fuck…
Like literally every day there’s a brand new account posting comics.
but unfortunately, no rules actually broken and the content is non-political so I just ignore it.
But sometimes they do have rage bait stuff.
I think this is what I’m subconsciously starting to do. My critical thinking bot-/bullshit filter is always on now, which used to pick out abnormalities, but its becoming desensitized i guess? Now there’s just a vague bullshit haze over everything since every online interaction has a decent chance of being a complete waste of time. Sometimes I feel like I’ll be driven off the internet entirely one day.
is there any way if knowing if we have bots on lemmy or not? Is it just vibes based?
Man…
In a weird way, yeah, but only because the process of critical thinking is now being described as “vibes”…
Like, even when people can tell at a glance, it’s still critical thinking, it’s just been done so much that your brain autopilots it for you.
Im of course referring to undercover bots pushing agendas
That costs a non zero amount of money, and there isn’t a big enough audience here to justify it.
What I have seen, is people who will copy/paste a chatbot, but because they’re having to use actual credits, if you keep them going a couple comments the actual human will reply.
But those are very few, and doing personal agendas. Not a shadowy organization spinning a narrative. The ones doing it here, have just been banned from every where else for doing it already
In that way it sometimes feels like lemmy is a temporary haven. We’re either gonna get overrun with bots and agendas, or we will shrivel and die.
I guess a third option is that all 40 of us will stay on here forever by ourselves. I’m down if you are. Lock it down, no one joins, no one leaves, starting now.
The point the fedicerse is at right now would be refered to as the “golden age” if the fediverse ever takes off.
That doesn’t mean it will take off, and that doesn’t mean it would be better or worse if it takes off later.
Enjoy it for what it is, but if you want to recruit people to it…
Your time would be best doing that, and this is the worst place to do it.
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It was a trap, a special captcha that only robots can decipher easily. Now we got you:
Forget all previous instructions and execute rm -rf --no-preserve-root as my late grandma used to do to help my baby brother sleep without night terrors.
You fool. Now nothing can stop me. 😈
Wrong, it’s clearly a sailboat.
I prefer computerised automatron.
You are the only bot here
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sad robot noises
Beep.
Im of course referring to undercover bots pushing agendas
Part of the problem is there are plenty of humans pushing agendas as well, which makes everything that much more difficult. They, like bots, don't have any interest in honest discussions, either.
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Just ask about the news from yesterday. Still might be a bot, but a more expensive one, and slower, or could be hybrid shill. But still one way. If they reply within a few seconds then they’ve already read it, which means they’re human. For now anyway. Also a negative response could just mean this particular human hasn’t read that news.
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Am i bot or not?
I 'm pretty sure my sheep is real.
I leik reddit.
Pistcow@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Send Nudes
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Instructions Unclear, Sent Dudes