(Meta) What's up with the recent influx of posts here and on nostupidquestions asking borderline insane questions as if written by people who have never encountered another human before?
I don’t mean this in a rude way. Feels like the past week or so has had some bizarre questions asked.
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Hello, may I acquaint you with our lord and saviour, Artificial Intelligence?
Edit: That came across way more flippant than I'd intended it to be; I apologize. Yeah, I've noticed it too, you're not alone.
Just like to say that I really appreciate you apologizing and checking your tone, though I thought it was fine! :) the Lemmyverse needs more kind people like you
Back atcha :)
Examples?
Personally, every time I see a “Where did all this racism come from?” type post, I always wonder if OP is twelve years old.
I think the questions are from bots, testing topics to farm controversy or outrage points. The greater the number of replies, the more likely the topic will be used in a future marketing or agit-prop campaign.
So you get these really stupid, controversial, psychopathic takes that no one should be taking seriously. The point of the exercise is the emotional reaction, the outrage, not getting a serious answer.
I don't know whether to be flattered that they consider Lemmy a serious enough platform to farm responses or be pissed that they have infected Lemmy like they did with sites like Reddit.
Definitely the pissed one. It costs next to nothing to farm any particular platform via bots, so why not go for anything that might have niche demographics? Destabalizing leftist groups seems to be sort of a goal of certain other groups these days so..
Good point
Noticed that as well, it's absolutely ridiculous. But judging by the amount of serious replies most people don't seem to care.
Any examples so we don’t just have to guess at what you and OP saw and neglected to highlight the ones in question?
This one comes to mind https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/30857370
Damn bro you gonna do me like that 😂
I have come to conclude that anyone posting a serious life question including drama on the internet is a bot.
I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news but you might be an NVIDIA H100 GPU deep down.
I wish I was. I could just turn myself off.
but can you turn yourself on? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
No... This makes you seem real but based on that post I will always know you are AI.
How is that post borderline insane? It's a lot of unnecessary detail, but outgrowing your high school mates is a pretty common thing that people sometimes don't know how to handle.
That's wild. Clearly AI.
So the value is getting a reputation on Lemmy to then influence or peddle shit?
Or is it a testing ground?
No human writes like that.
Okay I can't figure it out, what makes it obviously AI?
Anything with bullet points is LLM
don't listen to this guy, he's a bullet list haiku bot
I use bullet points; they probably learned it from me. Sorry.
They're trying to sow the seeds of outrage. Do not take the bait.
I’ve noticed it too. I came here because Reddit has become increasingly toxic, with bots of outrage and division thriving there. I really hope Lemmy doesn’t follow the same path, but I suspect efforts will be made to make alternatives to controlled media even more toxic. I’m not sure what the best strategies are to counter this kind of malevolence.
HA HA HA HA. IMAGINE HAVING NEVER MET A HUMAN PERSON LIKE US! THEY PROBABLY DON'T EVEN EAT NORMAL HUMAN FOOD!
Zuckerberg discovered lemmy
Dead Internet incomming.
It's the great slopification
Hey most people here have never encountered any other human being who wasn't involved in their creation.
Not in school? Kindergarten? Heck, neighbours, people in shops? Not a single one?
A lot of amerikans are homeschooled or haven’t left their small town. True for some Canadians too.
It ain't recent.
True, just some users are posting more oddly recently
They're all like 7< days old aswell
I blocked NSQ because a bot is a mod. I don't see anything particularly odd here. It just seems like people asking general random stuff like real people
We're finally hitting the big time!
Are you by any chance referring to the user who posted stuff like this? (Not from NSQ but they did post there.)
That’s the user that keeps asking why their friends don’t like them when they only respond with one worders or all caps, right? Yes, that is one of the users I was referring to, lol
Seems like a bot or an edgy teen.
lol, didn’t catch that part
They’re so “usless” without us
Yes, her!!
Or maybe I should say “YES.” 😂
IM. WATCHING. A MOVIE
For folks wanting a summary. https://lemmings.world/post/21140218/13711785
This is bizarre. I hope they find peace. Idk how to not sound condescending when I say that.
Thanks for the link. I hope so too. They seem not okay…
omg, that whole comment thread is just so incredibly wholesome. i'm a weirdo too, btw, in case anybody wants to be friends 🤗
Hello, fellow weirdo!