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?

    • Fosheze@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      21·
      11 months 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.worksEnglish
        20·
        11 months ago

        Luckily in a few weeks you can block entire instances natively within lemmy. In the mean time maybe your app allows filtering?

        • Fosheze@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          8·
          11 months ago

          Will that also block all users from that instance? I was under the impression that it just blocked posts from that instance showing up in your feed.

          Did we really need yet another reddit mirroring bot?