Reddit

There are in politics conversations, but still not nearly as bad as reddit. Even before I left, it was like a weird kind of prolific dead. Kind of like the conversations in OP's pics.

Will this LLM detection be something my LLM prompt can include?

I appreciate all of the extra work you do in terms of Threadiverse infrastructure and quality of life.

Many Reddit bots have also straight copy+pasted content from Reddit or other social media with only trivial changes to the text or image, if any change, so the Threadiverse needs to be able to catch those as well. A better internal search engine, especially one that can search for strings of text [edit: and one which can search through deleted and removed content], would help users track down if an account’s content was routinely copy+pasted. I think a new instance (unaffiliated with any particular instance) staffed by users familiar with bot detection to flag bot accounts for federated instances to then ban would be the best facsimile of Reddit’s now defunct BotDefense subreddit, which was a critical tool for users to tackle the site’s bot problem.

This account I noticed yesterday is an example of a Threadiverse account just copy+pasting content (or in this case, crossposting to the original community) with little to no change. I have reported it to its host instance as suspicious but it has yet to be removed. An independent and informed instance for flagging bot accounts could more effectively communicate to the host instance as well as to Federated instances that this account is ticking the boxes of a bot account and should be blocked, banned, or at the very least closely monitored.

A detector for bot networks, such as in the screenshot above, would also be helpful. Some sort of indicator of if several accounts are interacting with each other or on the same posts as each other far more often than they are interacting with other accounts and other posts would be helpful.

Maybe like the New Account Highlightenator on the Voyager app, there can be an indicator for when an account has fewer than X amount of posts or comments (i.e. a potential new bot account), as well as an indicator of if the account has returned from a long hiatus of posting/commenting (i.e. a potential former human account that was bought or hacked to become a bot account).

I’ll try to think of more signs of bots and more ways the Threadiverse can build infrastructure against them.

Participate in closed platforms, where you can be reassured you’re engaging with real humans - but you’re also under total surveillance.

Closed platforms where the only propaganda bots are the ones controlled by the platform. They can then remove ADs from the business model and instead finance the platform by selling access to the bot accounts. And people will think they are in the perfect social media without advertising and only RealPeople™ that they can completely trust.

Well there's holes in the fact that resale of accounts is an active and common phenomenon, and creating a fraudulent identity for an online service (even if you have to doctor an ID template) is a low-risk barrier of entry.

Remember how people used death stranding photos to get around face ID? It's the same concept.

Except that Meta has already admitted that it is using AI bot accounts to "drive engagement."

After an outcry from real users, Meta said it had removed some AI bot accounts. But nothing else they said indicated that the experiment is over.

Eventually, social media is going to be nothing but company-generated AI bots, "bot farms" run by humans in developing countries, and (hopefully) a small number of actual users who can't tell the difference between those things and real people.

It's a dumpster fire. Subreddit sim was at least trained on the individual subs so each bot had a different vernacular. Asslips is just someone mashing space on their predictive keyboard over and over and it frequently gets stuck in loops saying something is or is not trans.

What's the Lemmy community name?

Dead Internet Reality

In Science, a theory already has proof. We just use it to mean hypothesis colloquially

Huh, is this why I've been accused of being a bot before? I've been using the noun-verb username format since the late 1990s.

Yep I tracked those accounts for a while when I was still on reddit.

Blossombreezefairy, bubblypeachbliss, sparklepeachgiggle, tulipheartblossom, etc were all real bot accounts I'd found prowling around.

My theory for all these flowery names was that they'd be all assumed by unaware users to be women behind the usernames, and female-presenting accts would net a little more engagement and most importantly, karma, which is what builds the monetary value of these things.

completely unrelated aside...

i feel like we're overdue for another zombie-genre revival

There's also the phrase "It's not just X -- it's Y" that LLMs seem to looooove to use.

I've also found that a lot of them end their statements with a call to action, example: "Let's all strive to improve someone's day" or something like that.

Don't they have an apostrophe somewhere?

According to Wikipedia their apostrophe should be located where the US-ANSI dash - is located.