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Are yall okay with this sub turning into some AI led corporate icebreaker? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by venusaur@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 71 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 14 points 4 days ago

It's not as if anyone is /allowing/ these bot posts by the way. They are being banned when they're spotted.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 points 4 days ago

That would be an interesting badge though on post, similar to the new user on Voyager. We are so small we could have a voting system to apply a spam badge to user that would expire after 30 days or something.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you really don't want to see them then stop engaging with them.

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 33 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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)

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

AI is the new McCarthyism. I don't see many bots at all. I see a lot of fuckwits though. Maybe I just block the bots I don't want to see. The FWs are hopeless though. My main account has blocked hundreds but they are like the heads of the Lernaean Hydra 🐲 🐲 🐲 👀

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

https://archive.ph/iqyX6

Check modlogs, there's been like at least 5 of these this past week or two. Constantly spamming shit that isn't easily noticible.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

‘Fuckwit’ or ‘spambot’ is not a synonym for LLM slop. There are plenty of human or sweatshop posts.

[–] toomuchrdio@retrolemmy.com 7 points 4 days ago

dead internet theory is getting real and real every single fucking month lmao, might get back to reading books again

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago

They'll have to be old books, LLM slop is flooding everything

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No more em dashes either

[–] mudkip@lemdro.id 3 points 4 days ago

It's very sad that AI has reclaimed the em dash. I always use it in my writing

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How about something actionable? Name and shame specific accounts so we can block them.

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 16 points 4 days ago

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).

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

Both permanent now

[–] Oka@sopuli.xyz 13 points 4 days ago

This thread was generated by AI

[–] MonsterTrick@piefed.world 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't like Generated AI in general so it's a no. Personally, I much prefer interacting with humans as their much more interesting and are a individual. AI can never, all it can do is try to emulate what they think we act and be a Yes-man.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I mean, I think the point is that any bot asking for advice is a total lie.

So is a human being disingenuous.

The gratifying part of this kind of community is helping people with feedback. You don’t get that if you’re talking to a black hole.

Point I'm making is… if you wanted a simulated asklemmy, some specialized LLM agents could actually emulate that very well and give convincingly emotional conversation. But what’s the point? Its not about the text being AI generated or not, its about being earnest.

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 20 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Just straight up copy pasting titles from reddit.

[–] RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago

Wat?

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 4 days ago

[–] Beebabe@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

No, it doesn’t sound good. But I’m not great about telling the difference.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 4 days ago

What else would it be?