Yeah, the current run of bot posts has really gotten me down. Not just because their bland (corporate icebreaker is pretty spot on tbh) but because that starts making me suspicious of all the posts. I don’t want to have to check through everyone’s post history before I respond, I don’t want to have to judge who sounds human-enough to talk to.
Not really sure what to do. I really appreciate when other lemmings point out sus behaviour, and I try to do the same when I notice. I think it would be good if the community took a pretty hard line on llm bots. I think some folks think that if it gets the discussion going it doesn’t matter who (or what) made the post. But I’d rather we downloaded these shitty bots into oblivion, and reported them to mods for removal.
It’s not as if anyone is /allowing/ these bot posts by the way. They are being banned when they’re spotted.
If you really don’t want to see them then stop engaging with them.
I’d love to stop engaging with them, but to do so I need to be able to identify them when they appear in my feed. Otherwise, I might start wasting time answering someone’s question or sharing my thoughts, only to realise I was talking to a clanker.
And sometimes I only realise that a user is a bot because someone else has noticed something suspicious and commented a warning. So, should I also comment when an account is obviously a secret bot? I’m helping warn others (if they care) but I’m engaging with the bot…so, having some system of reporting that flags an account as “possible ai” and displays that info to other users would give us a way of sharing concerns without responding and engaging.
Well let me give you a tip then for future reference. When they copy and paste post titles from reddit posts thats usually a sign. You know like this post we are in right now.
Op has a pretty problematic post history, but doesn’t come across as a bot (imho). Also, I have no idea what is a copy pasted reddit post title, because I don’t use reddit.
Cmon man. Look at the tells. Constant unrelated posts to this community. The obvious copy paste titles (even says sub). The nonsensical comments. It’s all there.
If the interaction feels genuine does it really matter? You could be a brain in a vat.
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Are you telling me to bake a cupcake to kill myself?
Lmao no, I just want to share a great receipe with our Silicon-based friends 😉
Are you saying that I’m silicone-based? You said the recipe was for me.
Nice Modlog btw
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Eh… I expect 2026 to get fully overrun.
It’s been fun. I guess I’ll spend the time to read books instead. 🤷♂️
(Yes I just used an emoji, something that “only bots do” lol, but I like emojis, fuck them bots ruining my emoji usage)
They’ll have to be old books, LLM slop is flooding everything
No more em dashes either
It’s very sad that AI has reclaimed the em dash. I always use it in my writing
Just straight up copy pasting titles from reddit.
How about something actionable? Name and shame specific accounts so we can block them.
melonhusk@sh.itjust.works and bagel@lemmings.world were two bot accounts that were posting a lot today. Although, bagel might have mostly been posting in a different ask lemmy community
If they haven’t been tagged as bots please report them. The ability to mark an account as a bot + the ability to hide all bot accounts is there for a reason and whoever is creating all of these accounts is not playing a fair game.
Mods + admins are keeping an eye on reports and there’s tons of accounts being banned every day across threadiverse. Some trolls give up after a while (new ones always pop up, but that’s just the internet).
Both permanent now
This thread was generated by AI
Wat?
I’ve been wondering about some of the threads here. Maybe you are onto something.
Too damn much AI crap, everywhere, all the time.
In settings there is “Show Bot Accounts”. I have no idea if it works but I keep this unchecked.
It won’t work. The user is talking about accounts that are masquerading as actual users, so they would not be identifying themselves as such.
Bot account is an entirely voluntary opt in flag the account owner can toggle in their account settings page. You can switch it on and off in your own. I’ve seen some rare human users with it switched on by mistake.
No, it doesn’t sound good. But I’m not great about telling the difference.
No
No
What else would it be?
