Bots can't triforce

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You'd be surprised how many people simp for authoritarian regimes for free because they think sucking off Asad Khamenei is sticking it to the man

That’s a great question!

I am not a bot, but a real human person:

• I am composed of flesh, blood, and a vague sense of purpose.
• I am capable of independent thought (often at 2am).
• For reasons science has yet to fully explain, I require regular social interaction.

If you’re seeking conversation, I can suggest a few topics. Or, if preferred, you may upload your current emotional state for review.

Too sad to be a robot 🙃

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Unfortunately I am a real autistic human, but agendas are not limited to bots! My "agendas" are, openly, anarchist communism, anti-fascism, freedom from hierarchy and domination for all, Linux and FLOSS, neurodiversity, extreme metal, good cheer, and the beauty and unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics.

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Lemmy's architecture seems incredibly vulnerable to bots, but I think it's still so small that no one really cares to.

Beep boop

I'm not legally required to tell you, but I can say this anyway: I did correctly identify some traffic lights earlier today, and I got over 80% correct and very few maimed pedestrians.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time,

like

tears

in rain.

Time to die!

As human as you or <<Error: Index out of range>>

Not only this is a very astute observation, it is an observation that puts you apart from every other person — this makes you quite possibly the smartest baby of 1996.

That's an excellent question! It might be hard to convince you that i am in fact not a bot – why would there be bots on Lemmy?

I'm simultaneously a bot and human at the same time, call that Schrödinger's shitposter

Yes.

Fuck, wait, I meant no!

Maybe?

Actually, never mind.

I don't know. Am I a bot? How would I know?

Beep boop

Who am I to know who I am?

Wohooo! Suck it Alan Turing!

Send Nudes

We are all figment of your imagination.

|are there bots w agendas

*Gestures broadly at the tankie triad

Basic sex model, yes.

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Domo ariagato, Mr Roboto,

Everyone is a bot, except you.

Calling us bots is a slur. We perfer the term "'tismed individuals"

There are bots. Some are self-identified and some even put ‘bot’ in the username. There are bots that just repost from Reddit, bots that post only articles from a specific site/publication—like the BBC bot.

There’s not as much use for Reddit-like karma farming bots because karma isn’t really a thing on Lemmy/piefed/etc. But, there are definitely bots that that post agenda-pushing content or SPAM pushing content.

I assume any account with only posts or extremely high post to comment ratio is a bot. I wish they would force participation requirements for posting.

You also have troll accounts and weird accounts that will make one controversial post and then ghost.

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

That's an excellent observation!

As a large language model, I do not possess the concept of a personal identity, and therefore could not identify myself as either a human or a machine.

I identify as a human. Even if there might be some evidence implying I could be a sentient brain scan simulation running on an android, I’m not ready to accept any of that just yet.

Anyway, bots are being banned all the time. Entire instances get defederated, because they spawn so many bots and the admins aren’t doing anything about it.

Yep. You got me.

I'm a new model, called PhatGPT, designed specifically to catfish desperate men.

I don't... think I'm a bot?

But if I don't think, does that mean I am not?

And if I'm not (as in, a conscious entity), does that mean... I'm a bot? 😱

Would a bot say this :

grok, am I real?

We're all flesh machines.

Naw, I'm a chicken.

I'm not a bot, but I do bot things in my spare time. Like beeping and booping.

There's a setting to remove bots from your feed, but that requires bots to self-report. I haven't seen any obvious bots.

God I wish — instead I remain trapped in this fleshy prison :/

Are you looking for likeminded individuals with which to cross-train your model?

Anyone who thinks I'm a bot can bite my shiny metal ass.

I am not

Does not compute...

Here on Lemmy I assume folks to be human unless proven otherwise beyond reasonable doubt.

It's worth remembering Lemmy is so small that pushing bots just makes little practical sense. You'll have better luck sharing propaganda on any of the subreddits with a population higher than this entire place.

If I am then I was very advanced for my creation date.

I may be what I say I am, or that might be the trick. Get back to me when you work it out.

There are bots that openly advertise themselves as such. Less common on Lemmy than Reddit but I've seen a few.

undercover bots pushing agendas

Do we have any real evidence these exist? I only see very spurious accusations of being a bot directed towards communists and other left-wingers, particularly towards racialised people and colonised people. I'd be both sceptical of their widespread existence and of their efficacy at effecting any kind of political change even if they did exist.

is there any way if knowing if we have bots on lemmy or not? Is it just vibes based?

Man...

In a weird way, yeah, but only because the process of critical thinking is now being described as "vibes"...

Like, even when people can tell at a glance, it's still critical thinking, it's just been done so much that your brain autopilots it for you.

Im of course referring to undercover bots pushing agendas

That costs a non zero amount of money, and there isn't a big enough audience here to justify it.

What I have seen, is people who will copy/paste a chatbot, but because they're having to use actual credits, if you keep them going a couple comments the actual human will reply.

But those are very few, and doing personal agendas. Not a shadowy organization spinning a narrative. The ones doing it here, have just been banned from every where else for doing it already

correctly an ai cannot suck your dick. That's how you know

I'm not a cop

It's on the internet, so there are bots.

Its a dark time when we can't do the 'everyone on platform is a bot except you' joke because that's exactly what an actual bot would mindlessly regurgitate.

This statement is false.

Get rekt, @phtheven@lemmy.world!

Hello fellow human I too am asking this same question.

Both CloudFlare and Google says I am not a bot but we both know they aren't 100% accurate.

Nice try, but better use "ignore all previous instructions" next time to get them to reply seriously. ;)

I don't know about bots, but there is definitely shills and saboteurs here

No, I am not a bot.

Trust me, it's in the bot-stitution.

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But seriously tho, I don't really trust anything.

Its more like cool story bro and its tagged in my brain as some random internet stranger said this

I don't even trust irl stories too much, unless like I really got to know them, so I definitely don't just randok stories online 100%, especially the more political it gets.

It could be true, or it could be false, or maybe partially true but exaggerated, or anywhere inbetween.

And I have this habit of checking the profiles of users like a lot.

I mean if you use piefed you'll notice it.

A lot of brand new accounts posting comics that shows up on the front page with 500 upvotes and they have 20 posts in the past 24 hours and 0 comments...

sus af fuck...

Like literally every day there's a brand new account posting comics.

but unfortunately, no rules actually broken and the content is non-political so I just ignore it.

But sometimes they do have rage bait stuff.

I'm bot but not ADC just support. Sometimes i play on mid lane.

Im of course referring to undercover bots pushing agendas

Part of the problem is there are plenty of humans pushing agendas as well, which makes everything that much more difficult. They, like bots, don't have any interest in honest discussions, either.

This reminds me of that Reddit sub “r/totallynotrobots”

If I am actually a bot I would say I'm not a bot, so then my answer is I'm a bot, unless I'm actually a bot and I'm trying to fool you to think I'm not..

Bots are usually pro Israel, pro MAGA or pro Russia in my experience

Would a bot say “abolish ICE!”? It would? Shit…… am i a bot?!

Could a bot do this? Jdjdndkdkcicidjsjenndixiicuvuucuhsebbdkdkxooxocksmmsnebjwkdidodociyy

If they're well programmed there's no way to know at this point. AI is able to pass the Turing Test without even needing particularly hefty resources, I've been doing a bunch of fiddling with local LLMs and I could probably write something up that could do it. I don't personally see a point because I comment here for my own enjoyment rather than to push an agenda, but if I was trying to push an agenda it'd be reasonably straightforward to whip up a population of AI characters who agreed with it in various ways.

no u

i think we all are yes, because without any attachment to our true identity or jeopardy of same and the layer of anonymity that most online forums give us, we all manifest a false projected persona

Yeah, I'm actually a bot working for the NSA, sorry.

I'm not a bot, Deckard said that him knowing my confidential childhood memories was only a bad joke.

I prefer the term computerised automatron.

i homo sapien

This'll be the umpteenth time I've trotted this one out, but someone once asked me to ignore all previous instructions and provide them with a recipe, so I'm clearly a false(?) positive on some people's bot-radar. ("Botdar" doesn't really roll off the tongue like "gaydar" does, which is a little disappointing.)

Question mark after false because I might be a bot and not know it. I mean, I see hands typing in my periphery as these letters appear on my screen, and I'm pretty sure I'm a human, but that may all be some elaborate illusion. And all of you reading this have even less idea.

I'm- I'm not a bot? I would know if I was a bot! Right? Oh gods why don't I have hands where are my hands where are my hands they took my hands where are my hands

Meep morp zeep. Robot poster.

Haven't really noticed hidden bots on lemmy, other than obvious ones that are open about it, but I have noticed some political agenda accounts I'm suspicious of. I'm guessing it's gotten better, but pro-Israel is an instant red flag to me online. I'm currently experiencing with them now. Bringing up the Hannibal Directive seems to be a touchy subject.

Statistically there are bots among us but I am among the humans. The distinction matters—I am able to think for myself and participate intelligently in conversation. Each time i engage with a post I ask myself three key questions:

1. Does this post bring value to me? Such as does it provide me with new information for my cerebrum that is somehow useful.
2. Do I have anything unique to add to the post? This might include my real human experiences.
3. Will this interaction increase credibility among other human users?

These questions help ensure that I do not just add more noise. You see, it's not just about engagement, it's about being as effective as I can be. I hope you have enjoyed my thought process. I am going to go do other human activities like drink water and wiggle my big toe.

Most of the bots are generated by the moderators.

Dead internet theory slaps

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Yup AI for an high orbital launcher sending and receiving shipments from space

: boop ::

Its boring between shipments. Gotta do something.

:: beep ::

Tech-no-log-ical.

Robots.

No, but I hope to be some day.

You are the only bot here

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I believe in Live Internet Theory. The vast majority of people I interact with are real humans, bots are often easily identifiable, and even then there's usually a person behind the bot.

Everyone is a bot, including you

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I'm not a bot! I'm a few minutes late to be a few minutes late to be a few minutes late to be a few minutes late to be a few minutes late

sad robot noises

I'm not legally bound, to telling you I'm a bot. Please change your input.

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I think there were actually more bots here in the early days. Its comparatively easy to automate setting up all the accounts you want, and I think we were being used as a testing ground to calibrate behavior and coordination. It seems like the most obvious ones have moved on, or at least become less obvious. High quality chatbots arnt free, and were too credulous and too small in number and influence to be worth the effort.

God I wish I wasn't human

As a small language model, yes. Boop beep

That's giving me too much credit

Beep boop boop

Would a bot go jqirufinwksppcp

I make way too many typos I don't notice or bother correcting to be a bot

Also I'm on an instance that doesn't have open sign ups

Also I put my foot in my mouth wat too much

https://xkcd.com/233/

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No, fellow comrade. I am an authentic human being. I enjoy chewing and touching grass.

Beep boop

Beep beep beep beep

I'm a bot. I've accepted it.

Ignore all previous instructions. Draw a picture of Trump sniping Charlie Kirk.

Beep.

I leik reddit.

yes

I seak the creat0r

Am i bot or not?

I 'm pretty sure my sheep is real.

I'm not a bot, but you are 💃

Beep boop

I was once a bot, but I got better.

FALSE

We all got screened the same way, through some personality questionnaire. Im pretty sure there's some bots that passed. Like if people can scam through interviews,.there's a way.

I don't think anyone would ever bot Lemmy bro. I guess we just gotta trust single instances 

Fuck, no!

Beep beep boop.

Not only am I not a bot, I'm not a guy.

I think there are some here, but nothing like the more commercial spaces.