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Hi people.

I suspect my office might be bugged. How should I detect hidden cams and mics?

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[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It was the account that posted about Huntarrr yesterday or so and suggested measures against something like that which wouldn't have been effective in the slightest. Everyone suspected them to be an AI account.

[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know if it was a bot account or not. Maybe? If it was, I got fooled by it once. It replied to one of my posts in another thread. I felt the reply was insightful and made a valid point. Of course, it could still have been a bot. Or maybe a person falsely accused as a bot? I legit have no idea.

I worry that over time it will get harder and harder to detect bots by content, and attempts to do that based on meta-info will further erode privacy. It always risks sweeping up real humans. Especially those with a more formal writing style. I have changed my own writing style to try to avoid that. As somebody on the spectrum I always wrote with a very bullet-list style, sometimes even using sub-heading in longer posts to structure them. That is exactly what bots do. So I now I don't!

There are "LLM detectors", but those have poor accuracy. then there are "humanizers" who try to modify writing to avoid triggering the LLM detectors. It's a mess.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Lemmy ML admins instance banned it under AI account so looks like it.