How Will Lemmy and Social Media Handle Advanced Bots in the Future? (discuss.online)

submitted 2 months ago by The_Lemmington_Post@discuss.online to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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As technology advances and computers become increasingly capable, the line between human and bot activity on social media platforms like Lemmy is becoming blurred.

What are your thoughts on this matter? How do you think social media platforms, particularly Lemmy, should handle advanced bots in the future?

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[-] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago

We're not handling the LLM generative bullshit bots now, anywhere. There's a thing called the dead Internet theory. Essentially most of the traffic on the Internet now is bots.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

[-] Docus@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

It’s not just the internet. For example, students are handing in essays straight from ChatGPT. Uni scanners flag it and the students may fail. But there is no good evidence either side, the uni side detection is unreliable (and unlikely to improve on false positives, or negatives for that matter) and it’s hard for the student to prove they did not use an LLM. Job seekers send in LLM generated letters. Consultants probably give LLM based reports to clients. We’re doomed.