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Just give The Dead Internet Theory a read.

Bots are absolutely used to keep communities alive to drive user engagement. Reddit for sure does it.

I can learn. Teach me something and quiz me about it

Everyone on Lemmy is a bot except you

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I am a bot, and I'm super not-happy about it.

You don't. I don't. We don't. My comment could have been written by AI, just as your post. At some point I'm sure some of us, without knowing, had a discussion with an AI bot pushing some sort of propaganda or shilling something. I mean, it was happening even before AI - years before, and some political regimes have been flooding the internet with their shit and it was well documented. Now it's just getting worse.

Even "vetted account run by a real person" can be later handed over to an AI bot farm.

Also, I have fun imagining a bunch of AI bots stuck in a discussion loop, endlessly shilling crap to each other, creating insanely long threads until the platform can't handle it anymore or until a Mod AI comes along and slaps them out of it.

You don't :D

Ask for a community meeting, so you can see that those people are real.

Despite that, I don't see any effective counter measure in the long run.

Currently, sure, with a keen eye you might be able to spot characteristics of one or the other LLM. But that'd be a lucky find.

Frankly, at this point, I just assume. The old joke was something like everyone on the internet is a man, except for the children, those are FBI agents. Now I just assume everyone is a bot.

There’s no airtight way to prove someone online isn’t a bot. Even “proof” can be spoofed. But here’s the thing, conversation, nuance, humor, mistakes, and context sensitivity are hard for bots to fake consistently. Ask something personal. Something complex. Something off-the-wall. See how they handle it.

And even then, trust has to be earned over time. One post doesn’t make a person, or a bot.

Suspicion is healthy. Certainty is rare.

I havent seen any AI that writes gouvernment as "gouvernment"

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You don't, aside from like perhaps a handful of those you might've met IRL (if you have friends, that is).

Even then, how do you even know that other minds exist?

They seem to be sentient, sapient, and conscious, I mean they have to be, right? Same species and all...

But what if they're not. What if they're all just robots?

Or Simulated? Or just a figment of your imagination?

Maybe nothing exists. Maybe there is no meaning.

Perhaps, the true meaning of life is nihilism.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk, goodbye, and Class Dismissed.

Cogito ergo sum

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That is easy. Ask us to solve a captcha. If we struggle then we are real human beings.

Lemmy is too niche to spend money on running bots. There’s no profit, nothing to achieve. Reddit, on the other hand…

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I think at this point you'd have to visit each one of us in person to be sure.