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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.
No one exists except me. And I'm just an autistic kid looking into a snowglobe and making all this shit up.
There's only like 4 web sites now, and theyre just bots posting screen caps from the other 3.
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.
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.
But space is so much cooler in the Imperial system!
I don't know how it didn't see that coming xd