Are there any bots that make shitty comments or something like that? And is there anything lemmy would do against bots? I don’t like dead internet theory and hope this place is free

  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    22·
    3 months ago

    I’m sure there are bad natured bots, but they certainly aren’t as prevalent as on other platforms. I think lemmy is so much smaller in size and population that it just isn’t as worth the time to deploy a lot of resources. With the lower population, the bots likely stick out a bit more, which makes it a lot easier to block them.

    But that’s just a theory… A bot theory.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 months ago

      Let me definitely has a considerably smaller cost to reward ratio.

      The number of people that can be reached and influenced on Lemmy with bots is infinitesimally small compared to something like Reddit.

      But I guarantee you that the bots do not stick out, LLM bots are pretty damn good at blending in these days. And the shitty bots have been sliding by on the Internet for over a decade now.

      Lemmy and other federated services are in an unfortunate position where they have moderation and administrative tools that are on par with what would be expected 10-15 years ago for a large social media service (ie. Reddit). Which means we are almost entirely unprepared and incapable of handling malicious actors on Lemmy.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      My exact opinion.

      Say I’m paying you to get on social media and influence opinions with your bots. If you came at me with numbers from lemmy I’d be enraged.

      If y’all think bots are here, you don’t understand percentages.

  • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    Yeah, we definitely have bots. Robofuckers can’t keep their grubby little fingers off the rest of us humans. There’s also a lot of people who generate AI imagery and spam it everywhere. It’s pretty disgusting, but that’s just the modern internet. 🤷‍♂️

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
    2·
    3 months ago

    I’ve never seen real evidence of bots impersonating people here but it’s hard to know. Maybe admins would have more insights.

    There are a few ad bots that sneak in but they usually get a ban pretty quickly.

  • enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    slightly unrelated but there’s a community dedicated for gpt2 bots doing its own shitfuckeries with other gpt2 bots. It’s sometimes hillarious

    edit: I guess it’s not here anymore, couldn’t find it.