Just me?
I usually sort by subscribed so… IDK what is going on here
Some guy yesterday with a one day old account said something vaguely related to the post that sounded like an AI wrote it trying to sound human.
I tried to coax the LLM into a nonsense response but instead two people responded and I received -10 votes.
Looking into both their content history, it’s clearly the same person.
People are testing the abuse of no guardrails on Lemmy. It will get worse before a solution is created.
As a mod of !fuckcars, I’ve been getting reports of stuff being posted by new accounts that pretty much immediately get deleted (not banned, as far as I can tell; deleted by the owner). I feel like there’s something fucky going on, but I’m not sure what should be done because the content being posted is legitimately on-topic and there’s no user to take action against anymore.
It bothers me that I don’t understand the motive.
As a mod I can answer the last part of your question: If it looks like a bot, smells like a bot, acts like a bot, guess what it is?; A duck.
And ducks get banned.
Just to clarify: Only the ones trying to pass as human. Utility bots (and ducks) are OK provided they are marked as such. Creating sockpuppet accounts for later use is not. While the boards I mod don’t explicitly have rules against bots, zero interaction repost bots hoping to farm some upvotes do not help the community.
Utility bots (and ducks) are OK provided they are marked as such
Far too few utility ducks around here; marked or not!
Yep happens a lot the Shitpost community and then you have the ones over at politics spamming news articles. It’s weird.
Yep. I generally report them as bot accounts because they delete their account after a few hours.
The once with super weird number+letter string names?
Not just “the one”, one of like the 10+ I’ve seen over the past few months. I notice them like every day that I’ve lost count. Technically they aren’t really breaking any rules so I can’t really report, but it feels uncanny.
Yes, I obsessively check the profiles of people posting… especially if the contents are political (regardless of which politicla leaning), as part of my skepticism in face of this ai-era.
Its more obvious when you use piefed, you see the exclaimation marks next to their name.
If they are reported on c/boobs I remove them because they seem so super sketchy. So do report them, it always helps.
But yeah I know what you mean there are quite a few of these weird accounts about.
I see those a lot in Hacker News. It’s always John4826 or something like that. I guess it’s easier when you want to generate fake but realistic names.
It’s government bots. Trying to make star trek more popular than Star wars.
What about Star Gate?
The Canadian Government doesn’t have the resources to conduct such an operation.
We all the know government bots would never advocate for luxury gay space communism.
Clearly the bots are from section 31 attempting to preserve the timeline.
It’s more of a race to the bottom for both of them at this point.
Random question. Did it only start happening less than two months ago, after I joined? I suspect that the IDF has followed me here.
I’m not on that community but in World, Europe and Politics community I’ve seen this issue too. Don’t recognize that alias with the numbers though. But a new user posts a whole lot for 3 hours and then deletes it’s own account. And then gets a new account. Repeat.
See also ex. this post on Lemmy/support.
add: fyi a solution: Tesseract and Voyager have filters for accounts< 1 month old
This is is Voyager? I don’t see it
should be an icon somewhere when accounts are < 1 months. See this picture it has this yellow thingy next to poster name <1 day
No real filter option as such, like Tesseract, but it helps for the " filtering".
Nope. Any examples?
Because they spam post with brand new accounts, they often get reported and all of their content taken down within a few hours
I mean I pretty much browse new and see almost everything. Do you have any specific examples?
Here’s one that was a few posts above this one on the main page.
I got banned from RPGmemes for apparently boosting a bot account. So no idea.
