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as seen here and here, some instances are feeding posts wholesale to prompts, for what seem like extremely unsound reasons to me

any of you run into this shit yet?

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[–] rainwall@piefed.social 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Once again. The admin in question DID NOT USE THE LLM TO DECIDE ON THE ADMIN ACTION. Can you understand this? Can you read this?

Literally no one believes this corpo speak bullshit. That they just coincidentally ran this unpublished python tool, did their own work, then just happened to use an LLM to do the exact same work right after, totally innocently? That reads as absolute ass covering and nothing more. This is the "I smelled weed" of cop stops, just filtered through nerdy fediverse bullshit.

Then, because the above totally happened like you said it did, as a one off joke that no one would ever notice, the same admin opted to put a current OpenAI model name in the LLM field in an absolutely not tongue in cheek way for other admins to totally catch and joke about? Which of course happened, haha, y'all had a big laugh about it before this blew up, yeah?

Oh, and of course this only happened the one time, and never again. Of course no one on your team used this unpublished time saving and thought terminating tool again, of course not.

Come the fuck on.

Its very clear what happened. Your mod/admin wrote a python script that pulls user comment history via the Lemmy api, pipes it to openai to "analyze it," then banned the user when it came back with the answer they wanted to hear, and thats being charitable that they kept a human in the loop. Its fully possible the script auto banned the user and made the modlog comment directly. It was most likely used once because they bragged about their AI ban tool on the "we love AI" lemmy instance, and y'all freaked out on them because you understand optics at a minimal level. Any future use was hidden or, best case, kiboshed.

With no evidence to the contrary past "trust me bro," the above hits Occam razors much more consistently than your myriad excuses and evasive answers. Show us this script, show us logging from this qwen instance. Until then, its clear you're in full on PR mode because your admin team did exactly what you claim they didn't.