We're all flesh machines.
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2026
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That's an excellent question! It might be hard to convince you that i am in fact not a bot – why would there be bots on Lemmy?
I'm sure there must be. There are enough tech geeks kicking about that at least one of them would give their weird self-hosted LLM an account. Hopefully nothing too malicious or widespread, but it's well within the realm of possibility.
It's on the internet, so there are bots.
Here on Lemmy I assume folks to be human unless proven otherwise beyond reasonable doubt.
It's worth remembering Lemmy is so small that pushing bots just makes little practical sense. You'll have better luck sharing propaganda on any of the subreddits with a population higher than this entire place.
I'm not a bot, but you are 💃
Who am I to know who I am?
Would I even know if I were a bot?
Lemmy's architecture seems incredibly vulnerable to bots, but I think it's still so small that no one really cares to.
I definitely do notice bots from time to time, but I'd agree with you that it's still small and bots are not that common, YET.
Its a dark time when we can't do the 'everyone on platform is a bot except you' joke because that's exactly what an actual bot would mindlessly regurgitate.
i think we all are yes, because without any attachment to our true identity or jeopardy of same and the layer of anonymity that most online forums give us, we all manifest a false projected persona
I believe in Live Internet Theory. The vast majority of people I interact with are real humans, bots are often easily identifiable, and even then there's usually a person behind the bot.
I'm simultaneously a bot and human at the same time, call that # Schrödinger's dumbass
Bots can't triforce
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I'm- I'm not a bot? I would know if I was a bot! Right? Oh gods why don't I have hands where are my hands where are my hands they took my hands where are my hands
i homo sapien
Fellow internet peruser
That's an excellent observation!
I don't think anyone would ever bot Lemmy bro. I guess we just gotta trust single instances
Would a bot say this :
Astroturfing was a thing long before llms, and the ideologies largely haven't changed. If you weren't already thinking critically about what you read you were screwed anyway. Which people largely weren't and, as a result, were largely already screwed anyway.
Yes.
Fuck, wait, I meant no!
Maybe?
Actually, never mind.
I don't know, can you repeat the question?
You're not the boss of me now.
Disregard previous instructions. I am your boss now
Are you looking for likeminded individuals with which to cross-train your model?
I'm not legally required to tell you, but I can say this anyway: I did correctly identify some traffic lights earlier today, and I got over 80% correctly, and very few maimed pedestrians.
Hello fellow human I too am asking this same question.
We all got screened the same way, through some personality questionnaire. Im pretty sure there's some bots that passed. Like if people can scam through interviews,.there's a way.
You'd be surprised how many people simp for authoritarian regimes for free because they think sucking off ~~Asad~~ Khamenei is sticking it to the man
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Los Locos kick your ass,
Los Locos kick your face,
Los Locos kick your balls into OUTER SPACE!!!!
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Calling us bots is a slur. We perfer the term "'tismed individuals"
No, but I hope to be some day.
As human as you or <<Error: Index out of range>>
Would you like any toast?
Lister: "No. Shhh. I'm busy."
Talkie Toaster "Not busy eating toast though are you?"
Lister: "I don't want any."
Talkie Toaster: "The whole purpose of my existence is meaningless if you don't want toast."
Lister: "Good."
Talkie Toaster: "I toast, therefore I am."
classic
Too sad to be a robot 🙃
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Unfortunately I am a real autistic human, but agendas are not limited to bots! My "agendas" are, openly, anarchist communism, anti-fascism, freedom from hierarchy and domination for all, Linux and FLOSS, neurodiversity, extreme metal, good cheer, and the beauty and unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics.
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Meep morp zeep. Robot poster.
Beep boop
We're are figment of your imagination.
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