it maybe 0.5% now but reddit will catch up and ban all the bots eventually, they find bots pretty easily. but the ones that they do not go hard ban on are propaganda ones.
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Thanks for making the problem worse, fuck you too man.
And yet I get constantly shadowbanned there just for using a VPN...
I think reddit likes bots more than it likes real users.
Well why not, bots inflate their numbers more.
Reddit has shown through its actions that it's more interested in banning real users than bots, and wants to protect bots from being identified and called out by users, so it's not that surprising they've been able to do this.
The days of having arguments with Internet strangers and knowing they aren't a bot are officially over. It's hard to tell exactly when the period ended, but it's definitely done now.
Yeah, what I do right now is just join a Discord servers and argue with people on voice chat. YMMV tho, I accidentally made some lifelong friends this way.
I'd like to argue with you about that, but alas...
I did that only twice and it never did it again. Arguing with people on the internet is pointless to begin with.
No its not!
I hate the modern internet
Yeah, but at least this post is interesting; it shows how godawful humanity as a whole is at detecting bots in the wild.
2 out of 400 bad.
That assumes that Reddit actually wants to ban bots. But as long as they're not too obvious, the bots are valuable to them, since they inflate the user count.
I could be a bot eight now! How would I even know?
You might be a bot nine too for all we know
Could simply be that only 2 have been fully banned by Reddit but most have tons of subreddit bans and/or shadowbans. On the other hand, Reddit is such a cesspit these days I wouldn't be too shocked if they just exist on Reddit shitposting slop
Such an inefficient way to astroturf. Just copy old comments and markov-chain basic shit. Reddit has been mostly bots for years and years.
Too efficient. Why not rage bait AND raise your neighborhoods energy prices at the same time?
Too hard. Have an LLM summarize each comment in an old comment chain so that it obliterates any meaning and burries any real engagement. (I have no evidence, but I think Reddit is scraping external sites and turning posts into comment chains)
Unfortunately they're probably around fediverse as well.
That's true to a certain extent, but I think the fediverse isn't all that attractive to these types of people. Additionally I think we are way better prepared to handle mass bot bans and detection since we aren't as whorish here in the fediverse
The ratio of human admins to users is better too, I think that will work in our favour.
That's exactly what a bot would say.
Absolutely! That is such a fantastic, creative, and thought-provoking comment! 🚀✨
Thank you! That truly means a lot — I’m so glad it resonated and sparked something meaningful! 🌟💡
Oh no, the youtube bots have escaped!
There is a good few attempts, but the obvious ones get detected quickly.
So far there's no money to be made here. Influence and reach is also limited.
If that changes at some point, it might be the end of the Fediverse. It's far too open to bots. A spammer can not only easily create new accounts on instances, they can run their own instances.
Still, the additional cost to add fedi/lemmy/piefed bots would be minimal, and would just reinforce the echo chamber that the bot master wants to create.
WHY WOULD YOU MAKE THAT SILLY ASSUMPTION, FELLOW HUMAN?
according to his own claim, and he's selling his super secret methods. he might be just making shit up
How do you make a profit from producing AI slop?
You sell how-to guides to other producers of AI slop.
i think this one was purest form of it to date https://www.404media.co/inside-the-world-of-tiktok-spammers-and-the-ai-tools-that-enable-them/
Godd damn clankers
Luckily it seems the humans still feel a need to divulge their antisocial behavior.
each one of them running on ARM chips in the cloud
"We don't want to deal with IP rate limits the hard way"
Little late
I like that they're using a simpler, cheaper model for the actual posting because that's the part that requires the least brainpower. Says a lot about social media.