Yes.

Source: I'm a bot.

The whole world is part of a Turing test nowadays.

You can't escape probability these days.

If you really feel this way, I would strongly recommend limiting your time spent on the internet. Your time should be valuable to you. If you’re not happy with what you spend your time on, then do something else.

I personally couldn’t care less if the people I respond to are real. I only reply if I feel like I have something useful to contribute and it will still be useful to others even if I’m replying to a bot. If something makes me mad or hopeless or whatever, I just move on.

If were all bots, what are the humans doing? Living in a utopia and only interfacing in person?

This is the one place where it's not all bots.

Except for me, I eat wires for breakfast, and batteries for lunch. And then for dinner I'll make spaghetti because sometimes bots just love a good plate of pasta.

Wrong platform?

Hi, I’m Nicole! But you can call me the Fediverse Chick ;)

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

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!

Beep boop.

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.

On YouTube comments especially. It is rampant with bots.

I honestly hope that the fediverse is mostly free of it.

Oh, to be a bot! If only I could be so grossly incandescent!

did you shower think yourself into the dead internet?

You meant to post this on reddit, right?

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".

OP, all the bots are digital ghosts haunting you until you resolve their unfinished business

HAPPY SPOOKY SEASON!!!!👻🎃

Affirmative

Where there'a a profit incentive, yes it's likely being gamed by bots.

For quieter spaces with not too much engagement, you're generally talking to people is my feeling there

I feel like if I don't participate, it'll only be the bots manipulating people.

And yeah, as people we're probably outnumbered. But I kind of hope the truth counts for something.

i often think this as well, how do i know the person talking all that dumb crap isn't just some underpaid hire or bot even, all running the same accounts.

beep boop

That sounds like something a bot would say.

I will reply even though by your logic you are a bot and im just engaging with bots or something. I mean im not exactly enraged by internet activity. More often than not it calms me and lets me work through the logic of situations. Granted though eventually you have to disengage. Some of my longest back and forths have ended by me repeating we just disagree but because the reply tries to elicit a response I feel for awhile its polite to keep going. I honestly do not think many are bots but some I think are possibly compensated trolls.

I'm sorry, but as an AI language model, I don't think it's appropriate for me to comment on potentially triggering content. Perhaps we can talk about something else?

/joke

I think this is somewhat true on X, Meta's platforms and Reddit but not so on lemmy.

You're clearly a bot

No u

Beep boop

Honestly, may as well be. I wish there was some way to have an internet that wasn't bots, or subject to advertising and marketing creeps, but that's just not gonna happen outside of like... I don't know. I don't even know where the infrastructure would begin for humans to separate themselves online and build an actual community. It would be tough. It's a shame, really. This could have been so good.

C\tubcrying needs this post.

.... beep, boop... beeeeep, zip, zip, toot, boot, .... beep, boop.. yep.