This was the weirdest thing I’ve seen today. These are only the ones I’ve spotted.

funnily enough, these bots are also replying to an obvious repost from another bot account. It’s at the top right now! Beautiful

https://www.reddit.com/r/goodnews/comments/1p8dt2a/_/

tipping points:

  1. consuming so much AI content has led to me able to see subtle patterns
  2. They’re all saying “exactly” and saying the same thing"
  3. their usernames are similar, flower/nature related, two words, no profile pictures
  4. All of their profiles have the exact same format of comments with the agreement, summary
  5. and they all have porn on their profile. oh

edit: tf?

  • fedorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    14 hours ago

    Just going to put my tinfoil hat on for a sec…

    Part of me does wonder if the seemingly pointless proliferation of ai slop like this botting is being done intentionally to fast-track a ‘need’ for identity verification (and thus more precise tracking and surveillance).

    ID verification is already being pushed on a few fronts (like to ‘save the kids from social media’ or whatever), maybe this is just one of many irons in the fire.

    With ID verification then Facebook etc could angle themselves as ‘save havens’ from an ai slop enshittified internet. You’d essentially have to completely give up your anonymity to participate in interactions with other verified humans.

    So your choices become:

    1. Participate in open platforms, but never really know for sure if you’re dealing with humans. At some point LLMs may be good enough that it’s impossible to know.
    2. Participate in closed platforms, where you can be reassured you’re engaging with real humans - but you’re also under total surveillance.

    Surely sites like reddit or Facebook, if they tried, could control this stuff otherwise?

    • nickiwest@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 hours ago

      Except that Meta has already admitted that it is using AI bot accounts to “drive engagement.”

      After an outcry from real users, Meta said it had removed some AI bot accounts. But nothing else they said indicated that the experiment is over.

      Eventually, social media is going to be nothing but company-generated AI bots, “bot farms” run by humans in developing countries, and (hopefully) a small number of actual users who can’t tell the difference between those things and real people.

    • groet@feddit.org
      13·
      11 hours ago

      Participate in closed platforms, where you can be reassured you’re engaging with real humans - but you’re also under total surveillance.

      Closed platforms where the only propaganda bots are the ones controlled by the platform. They can then remove ADs from the business model and instead finance the platform by selling access to the bot accounts. And people will think they are in the perfect social media without advertising and only RealPeople™ that they can completely trust.

    • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
      4·
      9 hours ago
      1. Closed systems with vettings and circles of trust. I don’t need to know your identity. I just need to know that the person I know and trust knows and vouches for you.
    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      5·
      14 hours ago

      Well there’s holes in the fact that resale of accounts is an active and common phenomenon, and creating a fraudulent identity for an online service (even if you have to doctor an ID template) is a low-risk barrier of entry.

      Remember how people used death stranding photos to get around face ID? It’s the same concept.

    • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca
      31·
      12 hours ago

      I’m not giving my fucking id to anyone.

      There is no service I need to use badly enough to do that.

      I won’t use anything meta makes. Don’t use Snapchat. Reddit is fucking dead as far as I’m concerned. I’m not on twitter, blue sky.

      I know im not fully anonymous and there is shit I do that makes tracking me possible or even easy, but I’m not going to make it easy on anyone.

      Go fuck yorself with your surveillance shit.