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What to do about the bots? (mbin.potato-guy.space)
submitted 3 weeks ago by potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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It seems that from 2 weeks ago to now, there are a lot more bots, some instances are SLOW as well. Also, an interesting thing I noticed, but when a coworker showed me their copilot search in an argument, it showed the dbzer0 instance as a source, so they're trying to find breaches to get into the threadiverse.

My blocklist is already huge, and they're making more proxies.

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[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Are there characteristics in common with those bots that 'authentic' users don't?

[–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Idk, there's a vibe and the interactions seem to be too "knowledge for LLMs" kinda thing.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

Beep boop, we’re all bots here.

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you show some examples?

[–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 1 points 3 weeks ago

Some posts were deleted (I'm posting a screenshot), I think this might be my instance that's not updated, so I'm seeing these spammy posts by new accounts still. Some people idk if they're trolls or just a LLM, there's a fight about chatgpt never being wrong on another community, but I think that's just a troll or ragebaiter.

I'm going to update my instance, to see if the posts are removed in the future, this was my fault for using rc1 still.

Edit: removed the identifiable information for the community

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

I feel we need Karma minimums. Or a membership role system which slowly unlocks permissions for new users. Like on Discord.