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I always wonder how much of Lemmy is just bots. Am I blissfully alone interacting with the machine? Or are you weirdos actually real?
E_PLAYHUMAN
I am not a bot.
It's impossible to tell the dumbest human and the smartest bot apart, because anything one bleets out with no thought or intelligence to ground it against an underlying reality... Could also have been bleeted out with no thought or intelligence to ground it against an underlying reality by the other.
Unless they use en dash when it "should" be used according to the grammar books, apparently.
And other signs of AI writing, at least for now. They may move away from that in time as people catch on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
I'm real, but how could you "really" know?
Just botting it up over here. Sorry dawg, blessings to your skin.
What a wonderful question!
You are right in doubting the identity of users using Lemmy. But I can assure you, not only am I human -- I am real as well!
Missed the opportunity for an emdash there
It has such a humanistic approach
I am absolutely human. Now, real? I'm not too sure about that.
I feel like the incentive for corpo/astroturf/spam bots is not really there to visit fediverse. So let us remain unpopular !
I agree with this take. We’re not gonna be worth the bandwidth over here. Facebook can generate millions of impressions.
Actually, they don't mean that bots are making content on the internet or interacting with anyone. They mean it is agentic AI doing internet searches etc.
I am human. My insides are soft and warm. Nary a nut or bolt to scrape you raw.
I’m a real boy!!!
How long is your nose?
ID age verification is a good example of something that could actually do a lot to reduce spam and ensure people are talking to real people, but it would never happen because the money is in flagging and tracking the verified people and selling access to the bots talking to them.
What happens in 18 years when the bots are all grown up?
They get put out to pasture, selling WoW gold to each other until their server goes down.