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'Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 27 points 5 months ago (30 children)

I always wonder how much of Lemmy is just bots. Am I blissfully alone interacting with the machine? Or are you weirdos actually real?

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    What a wonderful question!

    You are right in doubting the identity of users using Lemmy. But I can assure you, not only am I human -- I am real as well!

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I'm real, but how could you "really" know?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    There’s only one way : Pics or didn’t happen

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It's impossible to tell the dumbest human and the smartest bot apart, because anything one bleets out with no thought or intelligence to ground it against an underlying reality... Could also have been bleeted out with no thought or intelligence to ground it against an underlying reality by the other.

    Unless they use en dash when it "should" be used according to the grammar books, apparently.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    And other signs of AI writing, at least for now. They may move away from that in time as people catch on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I find arguments interactions on lemmy go much more in-depth and feel dramatically more authentic than the responses to arguments i used to get on reddit. -That said i'm pretty sure c/political memes@lemmy.world is primarily bots. I'm also sure there are a few similar communities that are just as bad, but they appear limited.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Lemmy has a small userbase that has a high percent of humans vs bots, but a lot of those people tend to be whackos. Reddit has a huge user base with way more bots and whakcos (both by percentage and raw numbers), but also more normal humans. So there's a tradeoff there in which platform you use I suppose.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I’m a real boy!!!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    There are some bots that behave like some Tracies straight from myspace, I don't know why they're doing this, they are just paraphrasing the memes they comment

    I'm not joking

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    ID age verification is a good example of something that could actually do a lot to reduce spam and ensure people are talking to real people, but it would never happen because the money is in flagging and tracking the verified people and selling access to the bots talking to them.

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