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What's the plan to tackle the horde of incoming AI bots? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 1 year ago by zer0@thelemmy.club to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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I'm sure this is a common topic but the timeline is pretty fast these days.

With bots looking more human than ever i'm wondering what's going to happen once everyone start using them to spam the platform. Lemmy with it's simple username/text layout seem to offer the perfect ground for bots, to verify if someone is real is going to take scrolling through all his comments and read them accurately one by one.

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[โ€“] ezmack@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The horde aspect might make it easier. The ones on twitter at least you can tell are just running the same script through a thesaurus basically. 20 people leaving the same comment is a little more obvious than just one

[โ€“] usernotfound@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

That's why they're talking about the next generation.

With AI you can easily generate 100 different ways to say the same thing. And it's hard to distinguish a bot that's parroting someone else from a person who's repeating something they heard.