I don’t mean this in a rude way. Feels like the past week or so has had some bizarre questions asked.
Examples?
Personally, every time I see a “Where did all this racism come from?” type post, I always wonder if OP is twelve years old.
I think the questions are from bots, testing topics to farm controversy or outrage points. The greater the number of replies, the more likely the topic will be used in a future marketing or agit-prop campaign.
So you get these really stupid, controversial, psychopathic takes that no one should be taking seriously. The point of the exercise is the emotional reaction, the outrage, not getting a serious answer.
I don’t know whether to be flattered that they consider Lemmy a serious enough platform to farm responses or be pissed that they have infected Lemmy like they did with sites like Reddit.
Definitely the pissed one. It costs next to nothing to farm any particular platform via bots, so why not go for anything that might have niche demographics? Destabalizing leftist groups seems to be sort of a goal of certain other groups these days so…
Good point
Noticed that as well, it’s absolutely ridiculous. But judging by the amount of serious replies most people don’t seem to care.
Any examples so we don’t just have to guess at what you and OP saw and neglected to highlight the ones in question?
This one comes to mind https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/30857370
Damn bro you gonna do me like that 😂
I have come to conclude that anyone posting a serious life question including drama on the internet is a bot.
I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news but you might be an NVIDIA H100 GPU deep down.
I wish I was. I could just turn myself off.
but can you turn yourself on? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
No… This makes you seem real but based on that post I will always know you are AI.
How is that post borderline insane? It’s a lot of unnecessary detail, but outgrowing your high school mates is a pretty common thing that people sometimes don’t know how to handle.
That’s wild. Clearly AI.
So the value is getting a reputation on Lemmy to then influence or peddle shit?
Or is it a testing ground?
No human writes like that.
Okay I can’t figure it out, what makes it obviously AI?
Everyone’s saying bots but I think some of it is human-generated ragebait. Like that person who posted twice like “why did my friend block me” with screenshots of them devolving into crytyping as they tell said friend how stupid they are for being autistic.
(I took that bait, don’t judge, it was cathartic 😔)
As for why, I couldn’t tell you. Maybe they’re not getting enough engagement on Reddit anymore or maybe it’s not fun because Reddit already hates autistic people and will side with them. Who knows.
What’s crytyping, I’ve never heard that word before 😅
I would sure hate to be that person, assuming it’s not an alt or someone who’s in on the bait (like their sibling pretending to be the other person)
I guess it’s more of a Tumblr term. It refers to when someone starts typing really sloppily to signify they’re having a breakdown.
I guess it’s kind of a mean term but I really think people should walk away from the keyboard if they get to that point.
Lol pretty much, the typos usually get way more extreme.
I’ve been guilty of it in the past because I used to get so mad I’d stop correcting for my dyslexia or my general terribleness on mobile keyboards. Reason #∞ not to argue on the internet.
Ohhh. I mean, she was still treating her friends like crap and that says a lot about her
Oh yeah, that person was banned from my instance 😂
I genuinely can’t tell if that was a bot, a troll, or an emotionally unstable person.
From what I remembered, recent account, no profile picture, barely commented.
Anything with bullet points is LLM
- but if it’s
- exclusively bullets
- who can truly say?
don’t listen to this guy, he’s a bullet list haiku bot
- ignore the human
- automated responses
- bulleted haiku
I use bullet points; they probably learned it from me. Sorry.
- I use them sometimes.
- Don’t hate me because I like Markdown. :(
- Pew!
- Pew!
- Bang! (Switched guns at the end there)
They’re trying to sow the seeds of outrage. Do not take the bait.
I’ve noticed it too. I came here because Reddit has become increasingly toxic, with bots of outrage and division thriving there. I really hope Lemmy doesn’t follow the same path, but I suspect efforts will be made to make alternatives to controlled media even more toxic. I’m not sure what the best strategies are to counter this kind of malevolence.
HA HA HA HA. IMAGINE HAVING NEVER MET A HUMAN PERSON LIKE US! THEY PROBABLY DON’T EVEN EAT NORMAL HUMAN FOOD!
Zuckerberg discovered lemmy
Hey most people here have never encountered any other human being who wasn’t involved in their creation.
Not in school? Kindergarten? Heck, neighbours, people in shops? Not a single one?
A lot of amerikans are homeschooled or haven’t left their small town. True for some Canadians too.
Dead Internet incomming.
It’s the great slopification
It ain’t recent.
True, just some users are posting more oddly recently
They’re all like 7< days old aswell
I blocked NSQ because a bot is a mod. I don’t see anything particularly odd here. It just seems like people asking general random stuff like real people
We’re finally hitting the big time!
