(Meta) What's up with the recent influx of posts here and on nostupidquestions asking borderline insane questions as if written by people who have never encountered another human before?

[nutwrench@lemmy.ml]

I think the questions are from bots, testing topics to farm controversy or outrage points. The greater the number of replies, the more likely the topic will be used in a future marketing or agit-prop campaign.

So you get these really stupid, controversial, psychopathic takes that no one should be taking seriously. The point of the exercise is the emotional reaction, the outrage, not getting a serious answer.

[lol_idk@lemmy.ml]

Anything with bullet points is LLM

[geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml]

I have come to conclude that anyone posting a serious life question including drama on the internet is a bot.

I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news but you might be an NVIDIA H100 GPU deep down.

[dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de]

I wish I was. I could just turn myself off.

[gnulinuxdude@lemmy.ml]

• but if it's
• exclusively bullets
• who can truly say?

[hadriscus@lemm.ee]

don't listen to this guy, he's a haiku bot

[perogiboi@lemmy.ca]

A lot of amerikans are homeschooled or haven’t left their small town. True for some Canadians too.

[pandemanium@lemm.ee]

How is that post borderline insane? It's a lot of unnecessary detail, but outgrowing your high school mates is a pretty common thing that people sometimes don't know how to handle.

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

Just like to say that I really appreciate you apologizing and checking your tone, though I thought it was fine! the Lemmyverse needs more kind people like you

[lattrommi@lemmy.ml]

• ignore the human
• automated responses
• bulleted haiku

[lattrommi@lemmy.ml]

but can you turn yourself on? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[alice@beehaw.org]

Everyone's saying bots but I think some of it is human-generated ragebait. Like that person who posted twice like "why did my friend block me" with screenshots of them devolving into crytyping as they tell said friend how stupid they are for being autistic.

(I took that bait, don't judge, it was cathartic )

As for why, I couldn't tell you. Maybe they're not getting enough engagement on Reddit anymore or maybe it's not fun because Reddit already hates autistic people and will side with them. Who knows.

[thebananaking@lemmy.world]

I use bullet points; they probably learned it from me. Sorry.

[hiddenlayer555@lemmy.ml]

I don't know whether to be flattered that they consider Lemmy a serious enough platform to farm responses or be pissed that they have infected Lemmy like they did with sites like Reddit.

[runiq@feddit.org]

Back atcha

[elaine@lemm.ee]

Personally, every time I see a “Where did all this racism come from?” type post, I always wonder if OP is twelve years old.

[secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world]

That's wild. Clearly AI.

So the value is getting a reputation on Lemmy to then influence or peddle shit?

Or is it a testing ground?

No human writes like that.

[secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world]

No... This makes you seem real but based on that post I will always know you are AI.

[doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml]

It's the great slopification

[auroraglamour@lemmy.ml]

Oh yeah, that person was banned from my instance

I genuinely can’t tell if that was a bot, a troll, or an emotionally unstable person.