I’ve been seeing a lot of users from alien.top commenting in various threads (mainly sports) lately. They only caught my attention because they are all flagged as bots and I typically manually block most bots (not all because there are some I like). For every one of them their entire post history consists of 1-2 comments or posts. When I took a look at that instance there is nothing there at all and it also shows no users. The comments look human enough but I guess I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that all the comments are LLM generated. Is alien.top just someones LLM experiment or is something else going on here?
What is alien.top and why do all the users from there show up as bots and have no history?
Submitted 1 year ago by Fosheze@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
can@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Purely guessing, but maybe it’s top comments from reddit?
Fosheze@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If that’s what it is the the way they’re doing it is beyond obnoxious because I can’t just block the whole thing. If I wanted reddit comments then I would be using reddit.
can@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Luckily in a few weeks you can block entire instances natively within lemmy. In the mean time maybe your app allows filtering?
rglullis@communick.news 1 year ago
The bots are only posting to communities that have explicit approval from the mods. Are you subscribing to any of those communities or is your complaint because it is showing in your “all” feed?