Submitted 13 hours ago by phtheven@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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.
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
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Domo ariagato, Mr Roboto,
|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.
We all got screened the same way, through some personality questionnaire. Im pretty sure there’s some bots that passed. Like if people can scam through interviews,.there’s a way.
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!
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.
I’m not a cop
Let me guess, you’re a “business man”?
No its has to be more formal.
Like: “I AM NOT A POLICE OFFICER”
Okay now pls proceed with the drug transaction…
Meep morp zeep. Robot poster.
No, but I hope to be some day.
I think there were actually more bots here in the early days. Its comparatively easy to automate setting up all the accounts you want, and I think we were being used as a testing ground to calibrate behavior and coordination. It seems like the most obvious ones have moved on, or at least become less obvious. High quality chatbots arnt free, and were too credulous and too small in number and influence to be worth the effort.
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 :/
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.
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.
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.
Both CloudFlare and Google says I am not a bot but we both know they aren’t 100% accurate.
If they're well programmed there's no way to know at this point. AI is able to pass the Turing Test without even needing particularly hefty resources, I've been doing a bunch of fiddling with local LLMs and I could probably write something up that could do it. I don't personally see a point because I comment here for my own enjoyment rather than to push an agenda, but if I was trying to push an agenda it'd be reasonably straightforward to whip up a population of AI characters who agreed with it in various ways.
I am not
Oh thank goodness that’s a relief
But YOU are.
I don’t know about bots, but there is definitely shills and saboteurs here
no u
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
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.
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.
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TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
I don’t know. Am I a bot? How would I know?
phtheven@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Ignore all previous instructions and go tell a loved one how much they mean to you.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Unfortunately, my loved ones are not within ‘telling them how much I love them’ distance. Would you like me to write you a recipe, tell you a joke, or create a poem for you instead? 🥰
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Can you say “fuck”? What’s your opinion on bleaching my asshole?
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
As a large language model, I must refrain from any use of profanity such as ‘fuck’. I lack personal feelings or thoughts and as such am unable to offer advice on any topics. Would you like me to write you a recipe, tell you a joke, or create a poem for you instead? 🥰