New era of better buses: Landmark Bus Bill becomes law
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The Bus Services Act will make it easier for local leaders to take control of their buses and put passengers first.
  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I broadly agree, but we’ve got to take context into account. It seems extremely unlikely to me that OP is using an LLM here:

    • The post body is short and to the point;
    • OP’s post history looks plausibly human to me;
    • lemmy is a small platform that doesn’t tend to have LLM slop;
    • The topic isn’t one I associate with LLM bots (if OP was trying to sell us on something, for example, I’d be more dubious).

    Sometimes it’s wise to give someone the benefit of the doubt

    • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      2 days ago

      What about the Post history looks plausibly human? Six hour old account, no comments, and five posts. Nothing about that looks plausible human. Not necessarily has to be a bot, but clearly nothing about that indicates a person.

      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
        41·
        2 days ago

        I hadn’t noticed how new the account was, which definitely does weaken this point as evidence towards being a human, but aside from that, there isn’t anything particular that sets off alarm bells for me; their posts are primarily concerning recent news, but they’re not overly focussed on any particular news topic.

        With the advent of LLMs, I’ve found that there’s a spectrum of spam-posting: a more conventional bot account tends to have a high volume of posting, and you can usually see there’s a particular angle they’re pushing due to all or the majority of posts concerning a particular topic or issue; some accounts that read as less “botty” may have a human controlling what’s being posted, but using an LLM for the content of the posts or comments. Those are the two main archetypes I tend to see, but like I say, it’s a spectrum. OP doesn’t have a high posting volume, and the body of each post is quite small; there doesn’t seem to be any particular purpose to the account — it seems more plausible to me that this is just a human using emojis occasionally.

        I suspect I’m somewhat biased here; LLM generated text tends to be heavy on both em-dashes and semicolons, both of which I chronically overuse. I sympathise with people who are wary of potentially LLM generated content, but I worry about the risk of this wariness becoming excessive hypervigilance