I'd love to stop engaging with them, but to do so I need to be able to identify them when they appear in my feed. Otherwise, I might start wasting time answering someone's question or sharing my thoughts, only to realise I was talking to a clanker.

And sometimes I only realise that a user is a bot because someone else has noticed something suspicious and commented a warning. So, should I also comment when an account is obviously a secret bot? I'm helping warn others (if they care) but I'm engaging with the bot...so, having some system of reporting that flags an account as "possible ai" and displays that info to other users would give us a way of sharing concerns without responding and engaging.

https://archive.ph/iqyX6

Check modlogs, there's been like at least 5 of these this past week or two. Constantly spamming shit that isn't easily noticible.

+1

‘Fuckwit’ or ‘spambot’ is not a synonym for LLM slop. There are plenty of human or sweatshop posts.

It's very sad that AI has reclaimed the em dash. I always use it in my writing

If they haven't been tagged as bots please report them. The ability to mark an account as a bot + the ability to hide all bot accounts is there for a reason and whoever is creating all of these accounts is not playing a fair game.

Mods + admins are keeping an eye on reports and there's tons of accounts being banned every day across threadiverse. Some trolls give up after a while (new ones always pop up, but that's just the internet).

Both permanent now

Reddit has had subredditsimulator for years, stuff like that has been around a lot longer than the general public realizes. Could easily create a believable version of asklemmy, like you said. But the people who would want that are probably not the people who even bother responding to posts in the first place.

I hope Lemmy stays obscure enough to avoid the AI onslaught for a while longer, every major website is already completely overrun