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How many of you are actually chatbots? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by ULTIMATEDEAD@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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How authentic are forums like these actually? With the rise of AI chatbots, internet interaction feels more fake than ever before. Why should I post here my opinions and thoughts, share articles etc. when probably most of you are just chatbots?

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[–] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago

I have not seen any obvious chatbot posts on Lemmy, outside of jokes like the top comment in this thread. Whereas by the time I left Reddit I was finding and reporting 2 or 3 per day. This could mean

no-one's seriously deploying chatbots yet on Lemmy
the chatbots here are better than the ones I saw on Reddit, or at least different enough that I can't recognise them
the parts of Lemmy I see, and the parts where bots post don't have much overlap
I was actually a bot all along