• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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        8 days ago

        Anything I don’t like or makes me uncomfortable is Russian bots, or Chinese weather/spy balloons, or North Korean propaganda. Everything I like is fact, evidence, and science-based because I said so, or someone I like said so.

        There, I just summed up humanity for you.

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        8 days ago

        Very high number of posts, very few comments, for this user.

        An average user with a genuine question or sharing will engage with other users. Although with LLMs, there are bots that reply too, in the writing you’ll see AI failings, not human failings.

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          7 days ago

          I don’t think cm0002 is a bot. From what I remember, cm0002 makes a lot of posts to grow various communities, some of which are crossposts in between communities with similar topics. Although this account looks different from the one I remember, so maybe this one is an alt.

          I personally don’t find that behaviour to be harmful unless it’s fully automated or a fire hose of low quality junk. If a human is picking out the content to post, then it gives people something to discuss and vote on.

          I’m likely biased myself since I also schedule out posts with another account @otters_raft@lemmy.ca. I do that since this account is an admin account, and so I don’t want to risk any issues if the scheduling tool goes haywire. I do check it about once a day and respond to comments when appropriate, but overall the post to comment ratio on that account is pretty lopsided.

          We DO get harmful bots too, and they get downvoted/reported/banned very quickly. Those are pretty obvious since they post spam and ads in unrelated communities.

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            6 days ago

            I feel in this case, “TIL” should be personal (it’s not a cross-post too). But in general yeah, bots for things like news sounds like a good idea.

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      7 days ago

      I wish we had more bots posting useful links to articles.

      Humans just seem to post screenshots of headlines ;/

    • ikidd@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      OP is a bot

      And yet I’ve had DM convos with them that were remarkably like talking with a human. Am I a bot?