(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?
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Anything with bullet points is LLM
I use bullet points; they probably learned it from me. Sorry.
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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.
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.
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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 youBack atcha
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Examples?
Personally, every time I see a “Where did all this racism come from?” type post, I always wonder if OP is twelve years old.
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This one comes to mind
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/30857370That'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.
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Damn bro you gonna do me like that
No... This makes you seem real but based on that post I will always know you are AI.
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I don’t mean this in a rude way. Feels like the past week or so has had some bizarre questions asked.
It's the great slopification
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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.
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.
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I don’t mean this in a rude way. Feels like the past week or so has had some bizarre questions asked.
Are you by any chance referring to the user who posted stuff like this?
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Are you by any chance referring to the user who posted stuff like this?
That’s the user that keeps asking why their friends don’t like them when they only respond with one worders or all caps, right? Yes, that is one of the users I was referring to, lol
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That’s the user that keeps asking why their friends don’t like them when they only respond with one worders or all caps, right? Yes, that is one of the users I was referring to, lol
Yes, her!!
Or maybe I should say “YES.”
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Are you by any chance referring to the user who posted stuff like this?
That's so mean! I wish people were nicer about stammers, and speech impediments in general. When I got my first service job, I had a handful of customers like that, and I got a glimpse of how much it affects their daily lives. People got impatient and walked away from customers and hung the phone up on them all the time, they were excluded from everything just because they didn't speak as clearly.
And that's just what I noticed from waiting on customers. If they're friends, why isn't OP empathetic?
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That’s the user that keeps asking why their friends don’t like them when they only respond with one worders or all caps, right? Yes, that is one of the users I was referring to, lol
Seems like a bot or an edgy teen.
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That's so mean! I wish people were nicer about stammers, and speech impediments in general. When I got my first service job, I had a handful of customers like that, and I got a glimpse of how much it affects their daily lives. People got impatient and walked away from customers and hung the phone up on them all the time, they were excluded from everything just because they didn't speak as clearly.
And that's just what I noticed from waiting on customers. If they're friends, why isn't OP empathetic?
I know 🫂 It’s horrible. You should also read their other posts.
Either this is a bot/troll or she is mentally ill with no empathy.
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Yes, her!!
Or maybe I should say “YES.”
IM. WATCHING. A MOVIE
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Seems like a bot or an edgy teen.
lol, didn’t catch that part
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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.
What’s crytyping, I’ve never heard that word before
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lol, didn’t catch that part
They’re so “usless”
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What’s crytyping, I’ve never heard that word before
I guess it's more of a Tumblr term. It refers to when someone starts typing really sloppily to signify they're having a breakdown.
I guess it's kind of a mean term but I really think people should walk away from the keyboard if they get to that point.
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I guess it's more of a Tumblr term. It refers to when someone starts typing really sloppily to signify they're having a breakdown.
I guess it's kind of a mean term but I really think people should walk away from the keyboard if they get to that point.
Ohhh. I mean, she was still treating her friends like crap and that says a lot about her
