While browsing the fediverse I come across more and more accounts that seem … a bit off, a little uncanny. The stuff they post seems random, their comments slightly weird. What’s going on, is the fediverse being overrun by bots? Or am I as a fanatic anti-AI person just losing my mind and seeing the enemy everywhere?

I hate the fact that I now question every interaction that seems a bit off - it seems such a stupid waste of my time and I’m afraid I might just end up blocking real people who happen to express themselves in a strange way - as a neurodivergent person I know how bad I would feel about being ostracized as ‘too strange to be real’. How would you handle this?

  • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    If I were an evil fascist I would fill this place with bots to keep the lefties arguing with the void instead of going outside for direct action.

    Sadly, there aren’t enough people here to make that worthwhile.

    Other than that, curious programmers watching their creations interact in the wild?

    Even with LLMs, getting appropriate responses is a bit of an effort. So is integrating with Lemmy. I’m not saying it’s impossible, just that we’re really lazy, and it’s unlikely that there’s a significant volume of bot coders here.

    Just Google the number of Lemmy bots. There are disappointingly few.