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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by jet@hackertalks.com to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee
 

Saw a suspicious post resurrecting a 5 month old thread, and after a few back and forths:

https://linux.community/comment/3453531

I don’t understand why you are treating me like a robot. However, I can help with the Fibonacci sequence. Here is a Python 3 function to calculate it:

I'm torn, its nice to have activity in the fediverse, but I'm not convinced bots are the right way to go about it. Opinions on the future of engagement bots?

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[–] AnarchistsForKamala@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (13 children)

if the community rule is to ignore LLM bots when they appear in the comments

it should be encouraged for people to report bots. that's not ignoring.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 4 points 3 months ago (12 children)

True, but the overlap between the best LLM and the most oblivious human is rather large, there needs to be a smoking gun for a moderator to see a poster is undeniably a bot, there has to be some interaction with the bot to get to that point.

[–] AnarchistsForKamala@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (11 children)

, there needs to be a smoking gun for a moderator to see a poster is undeniably a bot

here's a smoking gun: they don't appeal their ban.

[–] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

I don't know that we can necessarily rely on bot creators to never implement automated ban appeals.

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