Yikes.

I had a conversation with Pi which tries for empathy. It was really weird because every now and again it did sound like it was interested in me or cared about me. Reminds me of that Philip K Dick story about the murder bots that look like wounded soldiers or lost children.

@007KeyLimePie welcome!

Discoverability takes a bit longer here. If you’re looking to add content, then alongside the usual directories it’s worth checking out the lists at https://kbin.social/magazines/collections

Moderation is transparent here.

Also, protip: if you’re in a thread where everyone is raging about “libs” or “the liberals,” on reddit that would indicate a conservative sub, but here there’s a 99% chance they are communists or anarchists.

I had a 3-month ban from a community once and had no idea until I did a mod log search on my own username about 6 months later.

Thinking back to how I could possibly have failed to even notice, I think it’s just that kbin still displays the comments of banned kbin users so I was probably still getting interactions through that.

downvotes go everywhere

Unless you’re in kbin.social, which doesn’t federate downvotes.

That said it’s still handy for other kbin users and a good indication that it’s been reported already.

I’ve noticed it too but I don’t think it’s only because of the exodus.

I think it’s also because by removing mod tools and opening the floodgates for bots, Reddit has enabled all kinds of vote manipulation and content manipulation by all the shill armies.

Everything from the Hasbara, the 50 centers, Putin’s troll farm, Musk’s troll farm, whatever Zucc runs that used to come and sealion me anytime I talked about facebook’s role in genocide … all those things have come into their full power now.

Really? That’s so interesting, and a bit disappointing.

I’m still on kbin so I can’t see downvotes from other instances, only our own. So most downvotes for me indicate actual spam.

Reddit also reported a 37% increase in daily active users. I think we all know who those are.

This. Also I’m pretty sure they were trained on the turnitin.com corpus so they waffle a lot. They’re incapable of making a point without sounding like someone who loves the sound of their own voice.

I wonder if there are already hybrids that steal and rephrase other comments using GenAI i

Have to be. There were rephrase bots before LLMs even, they just changed a few key words like “argument” would become “fight”.

Whoever made them would definitely think of this.

Nope, the Israel Palestine occupation has been a thing for decades. Redfit was different in, say, 2014 (another hostage situation) to what it is now.

Personally I think it has a lot to do with the total unleashing of bots and astroturfers, but it’s definitely noticeable to me.

Idk, the subs I used to frequent the most have definitely shifted to the right.

Worldnews over there is just a horrendous shitpile of fascism and Hasbara. It used to be way more variable depending on time of day and stuff.

I’ve had an alt on facebook for years. Just give it a realistic name and fill in all the crap about its likes and dislikes education etc and make it join some groups.

As long as it’s believably a person they leave it alone.

Of course it’s not. Nor do they want to.

I think the person you’re talking to thinks all bots are like the easy ones in this screenshot.

The low level bots in OPs screenshot, sure, because it’s identical. Not the rest.

I used to hunt bots on reddit for a hobby and give the results to Bot Defense.

Some of them use rewrites of comments with key words or phrases changed to other words or phrases from a thesaurus to avoid detection. Some of them combine elements from 2 comments to avoid detection. Some of them post generic comments like 💯. Doubtless there are some using AI rewrites of comments now.

My thought process is if generic bots have been allowed to go so rampant they fill entire threads that’s an indication of how bad the more sophisticated bot problem has become.

And I think @phdepressed is right, no one at reddit is going to hunt these sophisticated bots because they inflate numbers. Part of killing the API use was to kill bot detection after all.

They also use them in groups of 3 to lure people to malicious sites and scam sites. Especially fake merchandise sites.

No, bots’ favourite emoji is 💯

Doubt it, they are interwoven into almost any conversation with more than 70 comments.

Reddit is going to poison LLMs sooner than I thought.

Probably.

Exactly.

One day it will involve fediverse. So enjoy it here for here now, where the only spam we face is the black market prescription drugs spammers on kbin, and people pushing their own news blogs.