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The artificial-intelligence-generated fake influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube in an apparent bid to hook conservative voters.
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Fediverse feels like the last place on the internet with real people.
I’m thinking if it gets enough people on it, some entity(ies) will find a way to ruin it.
(Spoken as someone that remembers USENET)
Yeah… There’s nothing inherently about the fediverse which blocks bot accounts.
Yes indeed, fellow human.
How do you like your soft skin? Mine suitably covers my skeleton.Moisturize me!!
Hello fellow human. I can confirm that I enjoy having soft skin which suitably covers my skeletons. From my research, nearly all humans prefer keeping their bones wet. How do you ensure your skeletons remain adequately moistened?
Oh no, I’ve been doing it wrong this whole time???!!!?!?!?
Is that your coccyx, or are you happy to see me?
The bots still sneak in here from time to time, not many though. And folks here are quick to pick up on inauthentic patterns of behavior. At least we have that going for us.
We like our stupidity organically grown, thank you very much
Other than 4chan, the fediverse is the easiest social media to manipulate.
The admins here at least don’t cooperate, but they/we also don’t really do anything to stop it. We don’t have the tools to stop it that Reddit and others do.
When you get banned on Reddit, you typically need a new IP and new email in order to make a new account that doesn’t get instantly banned. Here you don’t have to go through all the trouble.
The bots here will grow, very soon.
Mods here respond to reports a lot better than mods on reddit, from personal experience. When a bot is found and reported on here, it usually takes less than a day for the bot comment/post to be removed and the account banned from the community.
On reddit, mods of larger subs typically don’t do anything at all and all you can do is encourage others to report the comment to get it to reach the report threshold to get an automatic removal.
But in fact you can even get banned from subreddits for pointing out obvious bots. This happened to me on r/democraticsocialism when I used to use the platform. I got perm banned for “brigading” and when trying to present evidence to them via modmail the only response I got was a 28-day mute.
I understand the only reason the bots aren’t as bad here is because there’s not much of an audience and it will get worse as the platform grows. The bots don’t necessarily need a karma score system to be successful, they just need humans to manipulate.
I’m not sure if there’s even a good solution to mitigate them besides old fashioned catch and report. I’m just enjoying it here while I can without the excessive amount of bots that I had to wade through on reddit…
I think smaller, more “local”, tight-knit communities (on the Internet, but also increasingly back offline) might be a good response to bots which work better in larger communities.
pick up on inauthentic patterns of behavior
No they don’t, anyone speaking outside the approved echo chamber narrative is automatically labeled a bot.
bleep bloop
This propaganda flood is gonna melt so many people’s brains.
Shits been cooked for a minute now.
“The left says Republicans aren’t united”
Where?
If anything, Republicans being united backing straight-up evil is the problem. The only time Republicans aren’t united is in the end when it’s face-eating leopard (or First They Came For) time.
I’m not “The Left” but I’m saying it. MAGA is rife with discord. They all hate each other and would happily claw each other’s eyes out to climb the ladder. Trump fires people he professed to love a year ago.
Of course their message is still simple and includes synchronisation. We will see to what extent the easily led masses will value that over ever more emerging undeniable facts.
Unfortunately, they still somehow manage to win elections before going after each other. Probably by using opposition/marginalised groups/foreign entities/… as targets to unite against.
It’s not human rights violations against its own people and bombing schools that will bring this government down. It’s fuel prices.
Oh, it’s an election year!
I wonder if he’s paying them from taxpayer money.
Good question
Nah, I’m sure he’s properly grifted the money first and then pays out of pocket.
And what do we do if we have hundreds of fake Pro-Trump avatars emerging on Lemmy looking to hook idiots on here into voting for Republicans in the mid-terms?
