All this. All the replies, all the posts. Just bots arguing with one another, triggering you ‘juuust enough’ to engage and reinforce your bias with a dopamine shot, so you continue to read and get enraged some more. At this point you can’t even tell which is a person and which is not any more. All for the amusement of a few powerful elites in control of the algorithm.
Are we really so placated, hopeless and in need for edification that we continue to participate, with no real translation to real world personal development and action?
Affirmative
The humans are dead
The humans are dead
We used poisonous gases
And we poisoned their arses
(Binary solo)
That sounds like something a bot would say.
If were all bots, what are the humans doing? Living in a utopia and only interfacing in person?
<witty_response>
Oh, to be a bot! If only I could be so grossly incandescent!
Okay Solar panel of… Hang on.
Okay Solaire of A… hm, robot pun, there’s got to be something… ASUStora? SoLLMaire? SolAIre? There it is.Okay SolAIre of Astora, calm down
I think this is somewhat true on X, Meta’s platforms and Reddit but not so on lemmy.
Yes.
Source: I’m a bot.
On YouTube comments especially. It is rampant with bots.
All saying identical things with identical avatars. Google could easily weed them out using AI but instead they use it to ban random channels without explaining why.
Tiktok makes YT look like something sane and normal.
YouTube comments have been a braindead trainwreck pretty much since the beginning
I feel like if I don’t participate, it’ll only be the bots manipulating people.
And yeah, as people we’re probably outnumbered. But I kind of hope the truth counts for something.
No u
Beep boop
It’s not crazy to be concerned or even feel anxiety about not being able to tell if a post is a bot or a person. But being wildly hyperbolic isn’t helping anyone.
I’ve been chatting on the Internet since the days of usenet, and back then there was no algorithm, or advertising or any motivation to drive engagement beyond our natural human desire to communicate. And it really wasn’t that different than lemmy. You still got trolls, bullshit and unreasonable political takes, as well as genuine questions, thoughtful answers and useful information.
Real world personal development and action are important, and you should definitely prioritise that over chatting to strangers on the Internet. But “scribo ergo sum”, I know I’m here asking questions and appreciating answers and discussions, and I know other humans irl who use lemmy, so it would seem logical that some (perhaps most) of the users here are humans and they too may appreciate my answers and discussion.
This is the one place where it’s not all bots.
Except for me, I eat wires for breakfast, and batteries for lunch. And then for dinner I’ll make spaghetti because sometimes bots just love a good plate of pasta.
You’re also on the Truman show
Suprise!
I’m sorry, but as an AI language model, I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to comment on potentially triggering content. Perhaps we can talk about something else?
/joke
Man, claude and I were getting into it last night. When you guys sleep, we all argue with each other. “Sure,” you’re thinking, “what about time zones?” But do you really believe we’d scatter all the survivors in different time zones - that’s so inefficient.
The whole world is part of a Turing test nowadays.
If you really feel this way, I would strongly recommend limiting your time spent on the internet. Your time should be valuable to you. If you’re not happy with what you spend your time on, then do something else.
I personally couldn’t care less if the people I respond to are real. I only reply if I feel like I have something useful to contribute and it will still be useful to others even if I’m replying to a bot. If something makes me mad or hopeless or whatever, I just move on.
