Fuck Steven Crowder and this meme. Use any other format. It’s an absolute trash human and does not deserve a meme.
Now you’re getting it.
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.
Beep boop reddit is fully authentic beep boop
No references to Johnny 5? Sad day that noble bot is forgotten. We should be all more like him.
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.
Chowderhead doesn’t deserve a meme. Here are Shredder,
BlueyBandit, and Calvin to use instead :
We need more Lower Decks memes.
Imposter! Thats not Mariner, her sleves are to rolled down.
Can’t forget that one!
Sir (or ma’am) I’ll have you know that is Bandit, not his young daughter Bluey
Thank you and corrected.
Love me some Bandit.
“Now how to act pregnant?”
wife rolls up newspaper in preparation
The whole show is a masterpiece.
Indeed. I love it when a kids show is also funny or even has lessons for adults too.
We had a good thing going then. Now we have to just let go.
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
Yes, that is the one.
Seems like a nonsense reply to copy paste into a comment section from an llm, it really has nothing to do with the conversation. I figure a human would have re-read it.
That being said, I took a look at his other comments and it does seem a bit too elaborate for a bot, even though they are mostly on the short and simple side. You can never really know though, it is definitely possible to build hyper intelligent agentic commenting bots.
I’m a bit paranoid about it, and also thought the user himself had removed the comment (my app just says “removed”, it doesn’t say by a mod). It’s why I don’t name drop or throw out accusations, it’s very very hard to prove even when it is true. I was going to send it to you in a dm which is when I saw the edit.
“intelligent” bots? Nope, not even once.
Not what I mean.
I’m saying it is easy to create something that would appear to be an actual human. The context window can be hundred of thousands of words, so it’s easy to give it the whole article linked in the post, as well as the whole thread, and other threads pulled from reddit and other forums, just to help it make a reply that could easily fool someone. It’s also easy to instruct it and train it to speak like a normal social media user.
You can also have it basically re-verify what it says, and include other bots who’s job is solely to catch gpt-isms, nonsensical replies, refusals, etc. It would basically be a system with multiple different bots (maybe dozens) reiterating on it and having specific jobs.
You can make hundreds of replies and have an other bot rank them so you only put out only a few of the most believable ones every day.
In this day and age, you kind of need to assume you might be being manipulated. There is no technical barrier to this anymore.
