this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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No, all bad online behavior now is “bots.”
At least that’s how people in the comments on lemmy and Reddit label them.
It seems to correlate with the rise in general awareness of LLMs like ChatGPT. It seems like just the threat/possibility of ChatGPT being used has already distorted discourse online.
I always saw it as someone who only repeats talking points verbatim is essentially a robot. If I can’t tell if you are a human posting, or an automated response is there a meaningful difference?
Shut up, bot!
Edit: Shitty typo
He'd probably need a strong sphincter muscle to manage that.
Lol, how did I miss that
I, and others, have distinguish between shills and bots.
Usually people use shilling as an alternative to astroturfing by paid human beings, while bots are just AI/programming posting.