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?
The whole world is part of a Turing test nowadays.
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!
On YouTube comments especially. It is rampant with bots.
Tiktok makes YT look like something sane and normal.
YouTube comments have been a braindead trainwreck pretty much since the beginning
All saying identical things with identical avatars. Google could easily weed them out using AI but instead they use it to ban random channels without explaining why.
Beep boop.
Negative. I am a meat popsicle.
You’ve won!!
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”.
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.
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!!
If were all bots, what are the humans doing? Living in a utopia and only interfacing in person?
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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.
did you shower think yourself into the dead internet?
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!
Wrong platform?
Nope.
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.
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.
