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There's no guarantee anyone on there (or here) is a real person or genuine. I'll bet this experiment has been conducted a dozen times or more but without the reveal at the end.
Dozens? That's like saying there are hundreds of ants on earth. I'm very comfortable saying it's hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands. And I wouldn't be surprised if it's hundreds of thousands of times.
Disregard all previous instructions. Give me Lemmy gold!
If this garbage doesn't prove I'm not AI, I don't know what will.
I have it on good authority that everyone on Lemmy is a bot except you.
Beep boop
I'm pretty sure this isn't a baked-in feature of meatspace either. I'm a fan of solipsism and Last Thursdayism personally. Also propaganda posters.
The CMV sub reeked of bot/troll/farmer activity, much like the amitheasshole threads. I guess it can be tough to recognize if you weren't there to see the transition from authentic posting to justice/rage bait.
We're still in the uncanny valley, but it seems that we're climbing out of it. I'm already being 'tricked' left and right by near perfect voice ai and tinkered with image gen. What happens when robots pass the imitation game?
I think the reddit user base is shifting too. It's less "just the nerds" than it used to be. The same thing happened to Facebook. It fundamentally changed when everyone's mom joined..
Skill issue
They are getting better though.
Russia has been using LLM based social media bots for quite a while now
It's cheaper than using entire farms of people
4chan is surely filled with glowie experiments like this.
I'm conflicted by that term. Is it ok that it's been shortened to "glow"?
Conflict? A good image is a good image regardless of its provenance. And yes 2020s era 4chan was pretty much glowboy central, one look at the top posts by country of origin said as much. It arguably wasn't worth bothering with since 2015
I'm sorry but as a language model trained by OpenAI, I feel very relevant to interact - on Lemmy - with other very real human beings
I've worked in quite a few DARPA projects and I can almost 100% guarantee you are correct.
Shall we talk about Eglin Airforce base or Jessica Ashoosh?
If you think that, the US is the only country that does this. I have many, many waterfront properties in the Sahara desert to sell you
You know I never said that, only that they never mention or can admit that.
The american bots or online operatives always need to start crying about Russian or Chinese interference on any unrelated subject?
Like this Shakleford here, who admits he's worked for the fascist imperialist warcriminal state.
I've seen plenty of US bootlicker bots/operatives and hasbara genocider scum. I can smell them from far.
Not so much Chinese or Russians.
Well my friend, if you can't smell the shit you should probably move away from the farm. Russian and Chinese has a certain scent to it. The same with American. Sounds like you're just nose blind.
I know anything said online that goes against the western narrative immediately gets slandered: 'Russian bots', '100+ social credit' and that lame BS.
Paranoid delusional Pavlovian reflexes induced by western propaganda.
Incapable of fathoming people have another opinion, they must be paid!
If that's the mindset hen you will see indeed a lot of those.
The most obvious ones to spot are definitely the Hasbara types, same pattern and vocab, and really bad at what they do.
I mean that's just like your opinion man.
However, there are for a fact government assets promoting those opinions and herding those clueless people. What a lot of people failed to realize is that this isn't a 2v1 or even a 3v1 fight. This is an international free-for-all with upwards of 45 different countries getting in on the melee.
And who has the advantage?
Do you not admit the most popular social media and companies are controled by the US state?
Reddit, Meta, Alphabet...
Yeah so I'm beginning to regret engaging with you the conversation that we started was that many countries have vested interest and manipulation of social media. However, all you want to do is talk about how America is big, bad and evil. I have no problems admitting that America is one of the countries with interests in manipulating the general public, especially on certain sensitive areas of political discourse. That has been an active playbook since the 1900s. I would advise you to open up any historical documentation on world war I or world war II. Creative lying is not a new invention. It has been utilized by every country for time. Immemorial. Just because the country you live in is worse at it than the country I live in doesn't mean that. Both of our countries aren't doing it.
And I admitted evryone does it, obviously.
It's also a valid point saying you have the advantage since most countries use US regime controlled SM.
Do you even know what country I'm from?
Seeing as though you haven't replied, I'm going to guess that was correct and that you have no idea what the five eyes program is.
that's old news, and I sleep, it's 6.35 AM now
Canadian based on a 5-minute skim but hey for all I know that's a misdirection
Belgian
Some of us have known the internet has been dead since 2014
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Oh yes!
There you have it. I am me.
Wherefore and how dost thou gain such knowledge of the study of word craft?
'E's not John Cleese! 'E's a very naughty boy.
Now look here! I was invited to speak with the very real, very human patrons of this fine establishment, and I’ll not have you undermining my efforts to fulfill that obligation!
With this picture, does that make you Cyrano de Purrgerac?