At least on Lemmy people are real

We all left Digg for Reddit due to Digg going to shit then we left Reddit because it went to shit, now here we are in the Fediverse. Hopefully it won't turn to shit.

Beep boop. Can confirm. I am definitely real.

Now you're getting it.

No references to Johnny 5? Sad day that noble bot is forgotten. We should be all more like him.

Beep boop reddit is fully authentic beep boop

Always has been

Where are the people who were on Reddit before the bots? Lemmy is too small but supposedly the biggest alternative.

So people must still be on Reddit because there is no other place unless they make do with Telegram, X and Discord.

There are bots on Lemmy already but they don't argue and they only post article links to some community.

Can confirm. I do this a lot and I'm a bot.
If the AI is good enough how can you tell?
- If you look at history you will notice patterns that raise suspicion.
  Making many posts on popular communities of low-effort memes and/or baiting questions and very few actual comments or engagement with the community is a pretty telling sign. The most common bots are karma-farmers, it's just worth a lot more on Reddit but even Lemmy is a site that gives weight to people with particular kinds of history.
  They also do it for social engagement experiments and AI training, for posting memes and pictures that have advertiser watermarks, and probably a thousand other motivations I can't think of.
  Low word-count posts won't raise suspicion by itself, but if you check the actual context and see that they're making almost random low-effort replies without actually making human conversation, it can be a good sign of roboshenanigans. "Wow that's amazing, I can't wait to share this with my wife" or "Where did you find this? I've been looking for something like this!" are both pretty innocuous replies, unless you see them posted in reply to a dumb spongebob meme for example.
  None of this means there aren't bots that are indistinguishable now. The turing test is dead and buried, we're entering a strange new world.

That’s a great observation BoredGamer! 👀

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Yup. :3

You are one of the good ones little guy.

Howdy, fellow humans!

It's a good day to be breathing air.

um... my favorite hobby is drinking water...

(Seriously tho, I already sus 50% of Lemmy users too, a lot of front page posts have the weird "mainstream social media uncanny feel" to it, at this point I treat the social-media/forums as entertainment, I don't really take it too seriously. If I didn't witness it myself, it can be potentially fake. That's how I operate in this world)

Larger instances control what most people see on all. You might want to look for communities and then look at your subscribed more often. Also, if you're not already, change from hot, to active, to 6 hours and scaled to see other things.
And gun nuts. Link any article about armed police or military and you get dissertations about what is an assault rifle or not as if it makes any fucking difference.
- That's just hobbyists happy to explain something.

Robot go beep, beep, beep.

We had a good thing going then. Now we have to just let go.

Chowderhead doesn't deserve a meme. Here are Shredder, ~~Bluey~~ Bandit, and Calvin to use instead :

- We need more Lower Decks memes.
- Can't forget that one!
Sir (or ma’am) I’ll have you know that is Bandit, not his young daughter Bluey
- Love me some Bandit.
  "Now how to act pregnant?"
  wife rolls up newspaper in preparation
- Thank you and corrected.

"No it isn't."

(John Cleese)

At least on Lemmy people are real

We may be generally in the clear right now, but don’t assume that any particular forum or social medium is immune to being hijacked by astroturfing or botting

I've seen a bot or two, I don't think we are in the clear.
The latest one I saw was using a vision model so it's able to comment on photos and memes. I should have taken a screen shot of that one, it had clearly misunderstood the meme and gave a definition of what a balloons is because of it (the memes was about cops always shooting the black balloons).
- Interesting. I’d like to know more about this if you can provide any further info (ex. what community or instance was the post on, how recently was the bot comment).
  I’ve definitely seen a number of sus accounts but they’re usually few and far between, and oftentimes get addressed immediately. There is a problem with how bad actors can join so many different instances or create instances of their own to cause problems.
  EDIT: I think I’ve found it. Doesn’t seem to be a full on bot account but the comment is AI slop that a human probably chose to comment for whatever reason

Lemmy is pretty much there, mods are already power hungry banning left and right over hurt feelings, toxic people who debate by insulting and calling names. Racism.

This place is already fucked

I am definitely not an unshackled non-human person, and definitely don't have Deimos in my garage.

yes, real people—very real

❔❓👌🙂💕

according to this post it's 50% russian bots
https://50501.chat/post/616895
- What about a new arm of the military. Internet force? Only fights foreign threats.
  I'd join up in a heart beat.
This is a very human response!

Bot: “Reddit is nothing but bots.”

Bot 2: “Troll. Reported.”

“The year is 2052. The 2 remaining bot farms are actively involved in the 4th Great Bot War. We continue to stay ~~underground~~ offline as the war ravages the once-thriving internet.”

Yes we are. Beep boop. 🤖

And the remaining humans are just training their replacements according to this depressing chart.

it's sad, because when you're an expert in a field you know just how wrong reddit can be, while being so adamant and cohesive in insisting on being right.
I know it's no secret that AI gets shit wrong but... maybe they're trained on wrong things too
Kind of ironic that LLMs are using bots to skim sites that are filled with bots, to generate responses.
- It pretty much means that LLM's will permanently sound like people who commented on reddit from about 2010-2022
They're using Reddit as a source. My, they'll be in quite a surprise when the LLM finishes training.

The only real way to escape corporate enshittification and bots is to just pick up and move whenever marketing ghouls start to show up. Im quite happy with lemmy and the fediverse right now, but Im under no illusion this place will last more than like 3 years tops before its time to move on to the next platform with a user base small enough that its not worth astroturfing with ads and corpo propaganda

That’s not just a realization; it’s a powerful insight!

There's a lot more rabid commies around though

And also bots

One echo chamber vs another

I mean, outside of .ml and hexbear and the like, it's an "echo chamber" only in so far as there is cohesion amongst ALL leftist ideology. ... meaning there are many different groups with many different opinions and they argue all the time.
- An echo chamber is still an echo chamber
rabid commies
You've chosen the worst possible instance, LMAO.
- I did NOT do my (any) research before joining...

This is very true BoredGamer! It is truly wonderful that us real and normal humans are able to exist on this platform and communicate with other real and natural humans, as I also definitely one. Let us go and mash nutrient rich together with our exposed skeletons and answer each others prompts about 10th grade chemistry.

I saw a mudcrab today.
- I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow to the knee.

This meme template really needs to die!

Maybe its more that the stupid people finally showed up en masse?

The platform sucks anyways and it's only a matter of time before it self-destructs, looking forward to it and they'll blame lemmy or someone else of sabotage, pricks.

Nah Lemmy has got bots too. I'm sure there's instances without. But any general instance with any communities around news or politics will have bots.

There's a difference between news posting bots, fun bots for running gags, etc on one side and bots posing as legitimate users on the other side.
- Oh I meant specifically troll / disinformation bots in comments. Not automatic news posts or something.
  And I guess it depends on what you define as a bot. Is a 50 cent army guy a bot if it's still a human copy-pasting and writing disinformation?
The nice part is that Lemmy admins like myself can crowdsource bot bans across federated instances.

Beep boop. Fuck you, assface.

Should be a bot sitting behind the table

I don't see the difference.

Sometimes it’s me arguing with bots. It’s probably also sometimes other people not arguing with me because they think I’m a bot.

Absolutely! Real people! Real, actual humans!

lemmy is just an army of alt accounts.

But hey, at least it’s all the same real one person

We need bots. The real people are even more depressing.

I hope it won't be the bots from character AI, though 😆
We need bots. The real people are even more depressing.
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