How do we know that the people on reddit aren’t talking to bots? Now, or in the future? what about lemmy?

Even If I am on a human instance that checks every account on PII, what about those other instances? How do I know as a server admin that I can trust another instance?

I don’t talk about spam bots. Bots that resemble humans. Bots that use statistical information of real human beings on when and how often to post and comment (that is public knowledge on lemmy).

  • @SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    14 days ago
    sure, here is a nintendo copyrighted art

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    nsfw and unrelated

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  • @stoy@lemmy.zip
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    015 days ago

    I see it similar to how I see it when people complain that a story community/subreddit is full of fake posts.

    I don’t care.

    I go to those communities for entertainment, not 100% unbiased fact.

  • @fishos@lemmy.world
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    014 days ago

    Frankly, at this point, I just assume. The old joke was something like everyone on the internet is a man, except for the children, those are FBI agents. Now I just assume everyone is a bot.

  • Mose13
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    013 days ago

    I’m not a bot


    We you like me to generate more responses to the original post?

  • @scoobford@lemmy.zip
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    013 days ago

    Serious answer: you don’t.

    HOWEVER, it doesn’t really matter. The world is a big place, and you can find a decent size group who will expound any shitty opinion when given the opportunity. You already couldn’t blindly trust the information or opinions you found online, so whether it comes from a LLM, a troll farm, or just an idiot doesn’t really matter too much.

    • @derpgon@programming.dev
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      013 days ago

      Usually bots do not participate in non-political topics. Why would they, why would anyone run a bot on anything besides politics? Maybe product shilling, but that’s that. Nobody is gonna run a bot on, like, bake recipes.

      • @scoobford@lemmy.zip
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        013 days ago

        I agree, except there are a lot of fucking weirdos who care way too much about random stuff. I can totally see a random 4channer running a bot to smear a TV show they don’t like or something.

  • @tauren@lemm.ee
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    015 days ago

    That is easy. Ask us to solve a captcha. If we struggle then we are real human beings.