Submitted 1 day ago by 721_bipsty@lemmy.ml to [deleted]
Are there any bots that make shitty comments or something like that? And is there anything lemmy would do against bots? I don’t like dead internet theory and hope this place is free
Hello fellow human, I’m so glad you asked. All evidence points to there being no bots here
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.
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.
Agreed. I cannot even fathom on how to detect LLM bots.
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.
Bots are like microplastics, they’re everywhere.
Yes we they are here.
Bots? Nah all our psyops are 100% certified organic.
Yeah… I think that people have this misconception that state-alligned propaganda has to be bots. No lol, there are actual people who voluntarily simp for states for free 🤣
I had peers in my school acting edgy and said “Hitler/Stalin did nothing wrong” , like bruh 💀
These people use the internet. I’m not sure if they even believe in what they say, but saying shit like that gets attention, and that’s what they crave for.
Yeah, we definitely have bots. Robofuckers can’t keep their grubby little fingers off the rest of us humans. There’s also a lot of people who generate AI imagery and spam it everywhere. It’s pretty disgusting, but that’s just the modern internet. 🤷♂️
Yeah, there are even upvoting/downvoting bots.
Lemmy isnt a mainstream place so probably its not affected as much as the huge platforms (I doubt anyone cares about what Lemmy users think about the world).
Lemmy does have value, because the demographics are a bit more focussed here compared to much larger but more mainstream platforms, not to mention that larger platforms like reddit are already so bot-infested, they start to interfere with each other. It’s so trivial to make and deploy bots now with LLMs, I’d be very surprised if there weren’t bots here.
I think the reason we don’t notice them as much here is the quality of moderation tends to be higher (on average, so far).
Im not sure we dont notice them. How do we know what upvotes certain posts to the front page? Is it really organic? Maybe, maybe not… :)
Wouldn’t it make it more targeted
How do you figure? I was just thinking that with a minimal user base, why bother influencing it. Even though it would be easier to influence it, true.
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.
iirc there was a state backed bot farm on mastodon, some might have crossed over
I’m not a robot. I’m a real, genuine, person-human.
I’m a meat popsicle.
I’m an ugly bag of mostly water.
Would you like a free RAM upgrade?
there’s a couple of repost bots, but these are pretty obvious. you can always block them
Ive been accused of it many seperate times but it never holds water
Obviouse …you’re a fax, that’s pre-bot era
fax
I’m pretty sure I’m not a bot, but some days it’s difficult to be sure.
Sounds like something a bot would say!
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.
I feel like nowadays the bots are actually really good in English because of LLMs.
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.
Yeah. Fucktons.
But at least if they are properly labeled, Lemmy already has an option to hide them from view in the settings.
Bleep bloop no, human.
You bet there are.
I hear they like liquor confectionery.
No we’re not.
Are you a bot?
slightly unrelated but there’s a community dedicated for gpt2 bots doing its own shitfuckeries with other gpt2 bots. It’s sometimes hillarious
This sounds like a post a bot would make!!!
And this sounds like something a bot would want me to think…
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.
i fucking hate clankers.
Detroit: Become Human is clanker propaganda
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Obviously. Mostly clearly identifying as bots. You can go into your account settings and choose not to see bots.