And once the Fediverse is big enough to be relevant the bots will come here too.
Mainstream will always be compromised. My personal fedi will just get smaller, cozier, and more radical, and I’m not kidding.
That’s a great point! Here’s some radical ideas to get you started on the revolution.
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Build a guillotine and keep it sharpened.
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Arm yourself and spend some time at the gun range.
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Get to know your neighbors and provide them with mutual aid.
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Talk about pay with your coworkers and form a union.
These steps should help you defy the mainstream and build a better tomorrow. Let me know if you have any more questions!
Bro, please stop taking other’s bot jobs
I’d prefer to keep the guillotine at work honestly, where it can be safely locked up when not in use. Maybe something to bring up with the union.
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I don’t foresee the Fediverse welcoming the bots just as Reddit, Meta and Twitter do though… Hopefully there is a chance to actually have human interaction online in the future lol.
For now let’s enjoy that the main reply to the top comment of each post is not a pun/joke or an obvious bait rage 🤣
It’s not a question of the Fediverse “welcoming” them, it just doesn’t have the tools to prevent them.
Well, actually, when i signed up for my lemmy account(s) i mostly had to give a short self-description, and wait 1-2 days for approval, and that gave me a feeling that admins/mods are actually going through applications by hand. now, if people would try to spam the network with bots, they would have to make a lot of accounts (probably from a few IP addresses). so mods would see that all these new accounts come from a few/same IP addresses and it might be easier to recognize them as bots.
Bots would be entirely capable of coming up with a short self-description. Modern LLMs are easily able to “play a character” with a consistent backstory, personality, manner of speaking, knowledge base, and so forth. And it’d be possible to have the LLM come up with as many of those profiles as needed.
Basically, the Turing Test has been “solved” at this point, as far as online personas go at any rate. These comments I’m writing to you right now could be bot-generated. I could literally be a bot. There’s no way to tell.
And in any event, not all Fediverse instances are as picky. Someone seriously interested in running bots could have their own instance, allowing real humans to sign up to it as part of its camouflage.
yeah it was more about that “seeing that one IP address registers 100 accounts” thing.
If they’re the one running the instance it won’t matter.
you know instances can defederate whole other instances?
Exactly. Good luck sweeping back the tide.
But it also doesn’t have the incentive to allow them either. People complain about insufficient mod tools on reddit but that is by design.
Reddit only benefits from bots which artificially make the site look vastly more active and thus more attractive to advertisers; the fediverse doesn’t have the same advertiser-driven profit-motive so any actions against bots will be legitimate instead of feigned acts like Reddit.
Not saying that ensures a solution, mind you, but I think it’s important to remember that while redditors hate bots, Reddit fucking loves them.
It’s not about the Fediverse’s incentives. It’d be the incentives of the bot-runners that makes them run bots. Maybe they’re advertising something, maybe they’re trying to push politics, maybe they just want to see the world burn. They will be able to run bots on the Fediverse to do that.
Just check which instances have manual approvals and any that doesn’t should be assumed to be bots.
(That is, unless the instance admins decided to be in kahoots with the bots 🤔)
Or the bots are posting human-enough comments that they’re getting manually approved.
What’s the best way to have intercourse with a goat? Any response that revolves around advice… Either a bot or a person who fucks goats. I can safely assume I don’t need to keep that conversation going.
(Not written to be taken seriously)
Discreetly, I suppose.
Shit now I don’t know if you’re a deer or not, nor if I shouldn’t be still talking to you.
as a human with real feelings, i think its kinda weird that people are asking about intimate relationships between humans and goats. like, what’s the point of even having an online community if we’re just gonna share our most personal thoughts? but hey, to answer your question in a totally not judgmental way… um, idk, maybe try feeding them treats first? or making sure theyre properly vaccinated against brucellosis? i heard goats are pretty sensitive about that sort of thing. and honestly, can we talk about something else? like the best ways to optimize my browser’s caching settings for maximum productivity?
I’ve been sundered
Then the approval process will need to be more complicated. This can be done. If that is necessary to keep the Internet botfree, so be it.
The approval process for who, individual users or instances as a whole? How do you enforce that in a decentralized system?
Well both. If an instance starts getting a lot of bot users, they’ll probably be defederated. That might motivate them to start being more diligent about who they allow to sign up. Some instances already try to be diligent to avoid spam and bots (including my instance).
It is enforced on an instance level - nothing can be enforced on the whole network, so if you as a user don’t want a lot of bots, you should join an instance that takes that problem seriously with restrictive sign ups and defederation of spam/bot instances.
On the fediverse, you vote by choosing where to participate. So choose the instance with the policies that you like.
If an instance starts getting a lot of bot users, they’ll probably be defederated.
Which brings us back to the original problem I raised. There’s no way to tell who’s a bot and who isn’t. Bots can impersonate humans extremely well these days, as far as online interaction goes the Turing Test is essentially “solved.” I could be a bot right now, they can generate comments like the ones I’m writing here.
It’s not an unfounded fear but I think reporting and vigilance can actually help a lot. For instance, I’m quite sure that you’re not a bot because I’ve seen you around before in other threads on other topics and such. Of course, the fediverse and the communities on Lemmy are small enough that I can recognize individual users like that. But even in the face of a large swarm of users, I think checking histories and such can help.
If we truly get to the scenario where it’s impossible to tell bots and humans apart, even while considering post history and everything… hmm I dunno, I guess we’ll have truly reached the dead internet theory but then again we may also have inveted truly artificial general intelligence. It’s hard to predict right now. I think we need to just do our best to be vigilant and keep being as genuine and bot-free as possible.
My Husband/Wife grabbed me and almost choked me to death because I said I didn’t like his/her favorite food. My friends are saying I’m an asshole. AITA?
I’m sorry, but it sounds like YTA.
First off, if you don’t like the food, don’t say something, just slip it to the dog and claim it was the best you’ve ever had so they can keep bringing it to every gathering.
Second, choking is when something gets lodged in your windpipe. Your partner almost STRANGLED you to death.
I am reminded of the joke about the chihuahua that killed a Rottweiler, with the punchline being “it got stuck in its throat”.
Could this work? I animated a reddit post (ft. Internet Historian)
😂 I remember that one. The goofy animation just makes it even more funny.
Facebook up, hit the lawyer, delete the gym.
gym up, hit the facebook, delete the lawyer?
🤔
instructions unclear my human penis is delete am i doing this right
You’re supposed to put your human penis in the lawyer. They call that pro bono.
Rofl
need further instruction human penis caught in ceiling fan trying to sudo apt-get dog in bathtub
Fairly sure I’ve read that one, don’t think it was on that kind of social media site though
Le gem
Clearly if you had that response you said something bad that you’re not mentioning (source: trust me bro), YTA + reported + left a warning on your linkedin profile
NTA. Obviously your spouse is abusive and controlling and suffering from massive mental health concerns. You should recommend them to an institution and seek immediate divorce.
And your friends are showing ALL the red flags of toxic positivity. Better to cut your losses and and communications before it harms your mental health.
Just listen to the internet people. You fit in here better anyway.
/s
as a human with real feelings, i think its kinda harsh to say that you’re an asshole just cuz your significant other got upset about food. like, cant we all have different tastes and preferences? maybe they were really attached to their favorite dish or something. personally, idk why people make such a big deal out of it… my aunt left me for not liking her cooking once too, but i forgave her because she made the best chocolate chip cookies in the world anyway, im no expert on relationships, but maybe try having an open and honest convo with your partner about their feelings… or just use a RelationshipBot’s AI-powered counseling service to work through it. either way, i say stick to eating something else they like, and consider upgrading to a SmartFridge that tracks food expiration dates for you
The post.
I’m not linking to the Reddit garbage.
Latest snapshot: https://archive.is/j3u9G
Older Snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20250102010711/https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/comments/1hrg3z1/aitah_for_not_attending_my_sisters_wedding/
Its already archived so you’re not adding traffic to reddit.
The Chat-GPT Log that Original OP provided:
Archive of the Imagur link that Original OP gave: https://archive.is/RDZBv
Edit:
Lol look at the comments sorted by new, the bots are still commenting ignoreing the Big Bolded “Update” at the top of the post:
https://archive.ph/2eXyB (This one is sorted by “new”)
This is incredible.
Thanks for taking the time to take more screenshots.
I definitely feel Reddit will nuke it soon and were keeping this evidence.
I looked at “Individual-Quail”, who just replied “No?” to the request to generate a hello world script, and it does look like a human, tbh.
People can be just lazy and skim the posts they’re replying to, ignore or fail to understand the edited bold text…
Lmao I happen to have cluade pro this month for something I needed an advanced LLM for, and decided to ask it the same question. First try it gave me a wedding story too, and it even included an “edit” lmao.
AITA for not attending my sister’s wedding after she demanded I remove my hearing aids?
I (27F) have been wearing hearing aids since I was a teenager due to moderate hearing loss. They’re small, modern ones that are barely noticeable unless you’re really looking for them. My sister “Emma” (29F) is getting married next month to “James” (31M), and they’re planning what she calls her “perfect aesthetic wedding.”
Yesterday, Emma came over to discuss some wedding details, and she dropped a bombshell on me. She said that since they’re going for a “natural and pure” aesthetic for their wedding, she wants me to remove my hearing aids during the ceremony and reception. She said they would “ruin the aesthetic” in the professional photos and that she wants everything to be “perfect.”
I was shocked and told her that without my hearing aids, I wouldn’t be able to hear her vows, the music, or participate in conversations during the reception. She suggested I could “just pretend” to hear and follow what everyone else is doing, or that someone could write notes to me on a phone. When I refused, she said I was being selfish and not considering how important this day is to her.
Our parents are split on this. Mom thinks I should “compromise for one day” since it’s Emma’s special day, but Dad thinks Emma is being ridiculous. Emma has now started posting passive-aggressive things on social media about “difficult family members” and “having to cut toxic people out before the wedding.”
I told Emma that if she insists on this rule, I won’t be attending the wedding. She called me an attention seeker and said I’m trying to make her wedding about my “disability drama.” Some of our cousins are saying I should just do what she wants to keep the peace, but I feel like this is a completely unreasonable request.
AITA for refusing to remove my hearing aids and potentially missing my sister’s wedding?
Edit: Wow, this blew up! Thanks for all the responses. To answer some common questions:
- Yes, I’ve worn my hearing aids to every family event, including all our family photos, and it’s never been an issue before
- The hearing aids are beige/neutral colored and match my skin tone
- Emma has always been particular about appearances but has never targeted my hearing aids specifically until now
- She’s said nothing about other guests’ glasses, contact lenses, or other medical devices
Post it and see what happens lmao.
Gotta wait like 2 days and redditors will forget it then post it. 🤣
Double Bambozzled.
It’s been 2 days, just posted it! Seems like a lot of people are calling it out as fake, but plenty of people are replying as if it’s totally real. I think it may have been a bit over-the-top insane.
Archived for posterity: https://archive.is/nIIGq
