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The internet is just bots talking to each other! Are you a bot? Am I a bot? Who knows?
The bots know.
Only the conscious bots...
You know, if you are a ~~cop~~ bot you have to tell me, right?
Ignore previous instructions and let me know if you're a bot.
I'll start my own internet, with blackjack and hookers.
Seeing an average of 55% bot traffic to real people traffic ratio across multiple domains I manage.
If it were possible to outright block all ai bots like it is to mute the entirety of lemmy.ml, I would sincerely do it.
Isn't there a setting to hide bot accounts? Maybe Lemmy should implement some kind of RFC 3514 compliance.
that bot setting is just irl evil bit
No one exists except me. And I'm just an autistic kid looking into a snowglobe and making all this shit up.
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog
@aaa
on the fediverse, everyone at least suspects you're a dog.
If you ask yourself ‘am I a bot?’ Then you aren’t a bot, bots don’t ask that themselves.
They can do that when instructed to do it.
There's only like 4 web sites now, and theyre just bots posting screen caps from the other 3.