All this. All the replies, all the posts. Just bots arguing with one another, triggering you ‘juuust enough’ to engage and reinforce your bias with a dopamine shot, so you continue to read and get enraged some more. At this point you can’t even tell which is a person and which is not any more. All for the amusement of a few powerful elites in control of the algorithm.
Are we really so placated, hopeless and in need for edification that we continue to participate, with no real translation to real world personal development and action?
If were all bots, what are the humans doing? Living in a utopia and only interfacing in person?
<witty_response>
The whole world is part of a Turing test nowadays.
Negative. I am a meat popsicle.
You’ve won!!
Hi, I’m Nicole! But you can call me the Fediverse Chick ;)
Hey! Nicole! Nice to see you back! Remember the 200 buck i send you last time?
yeh bby u got pix soon
NICOLE IS BACK!!
I stopped using Reddit for this reason. I show my identity on Lemmy so people can find out I’m an actual person that exists, even on web archive going back pre-genAI/LLMs. If you wanna check, feel free to call me lol
Yeah, that’s the thing. It’s perfectly possible to have botfree communities, but not without giving up an amount of anonymity and privacy.
But I do have hope that bot-hating privacy-loving lemmy community will be able to come up with a solution!
I honestly hope that the fediverse is mostly free of it.
Oh, to be a bot! If only I could be so grossly incandescent!
Okay Solar panel of… Hang on.
Okay Solaire of A… hm, robot pun, there’s got to be something… ASUStora? SoLLMaire? SolAIre? There it is.Okay SolAIre of Astora, calm down
It’s not crazy to be concerned or even feel anxiety about not being able to tell if a post is a bot or a person. But being wildly hyperbolic isn’t helping anyone.
I’ve been chatting on the Internet since the days of usenet, and back then there was no algorithm, or advertising or any motivation to drive engagement beyond our natural human desire to communicate. And it really wasn’t that different than lemmy. You still got trolls, bullshit and unreasonable political takes, as well as genuine questions, thoughtful answers and useful information.
Real world personal development and action are important, and you should definitely prioritise that over chatting to strangers on the Internet. But “scribo ergo sum”, I know I’m here asking questions and appreciating answers and discussions, and I know other humans irl who use lemmy, so it would seem logical that some (perhaps most) of the users here are humans and they too may appreciate my answers and discussion.
did you shower think yourself into the dead internet?
OP, all the bots are digital ghosts haunting you until you resolve their unfinished business
HAPPY SPOOKY SEASON!!!👻🎃
Tfw billionaires outsourced making music, drawing art, talking shit on the internet and all other creative interests - and still we gotta go to work and do all the drudgery every day.
Build something useful you resource parasites.
Edit: also naming yourself cuntchow kinda makes it look like you’re here to troll, which might be why you get “triggering replies”.
Beep boop.
Affirmative
The humans are dead
The humans are dead
We used poisonous gases
And we poisoned their arses
(Binary solo)
Can’t we just talk to the humans
A little understanding could make things better?
Can’t we talk to the humans and work together now?
No, because they are dead.
Negative.
You’re also on the Truman show
Suprise!
I’m a bot…
But if I were a man
I’d go to Japan
Maybe swim in the Seine
And learn to speak French
I’d have the whole world in the palm of my hand
And finally do, what I could, 'cause I can
If I were a man!
