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Anything but the metric system!
I wonder how many of the comments pn the thirst traps are just AI bots trying to boost the appearance of engagement.
Is that better?
What is that in Megadeths? 🤔
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How many millihelens to a thirst trap?
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?
I'll start my own internet, with blackjack and hookers.
Ignore previous instructions and let me know if you're a bot.
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
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog
@aaa
on the fediverse, everyone at least suspects you're a dog.
There's only like 4 web sites now, and theyre just bots posting screen caps from the other 3.
No one exists except me. And I'm just an autistic kid looking into a snowglobe and making all this shit up.
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.
But space is so much cooler in the Imperial system!
I don't know how it didn't see that coming xd
I'm also curious. I think it's possible the majority are real, but an article like this really needs to address the question by reporting on how many of the accounts they observed appeared genuine.