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Is the bot/troll situation getting worse?
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this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2024
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Election year in the US and EU while Russia is invading a neighbor and China possibly preparing to do the same. There couldn‘t have been a worse time for LLMs to be so accessible, capable and fairly unregulated. The perfect conditions to make this year the worst for internet content we‘ve ever seen. By a landslide. We will look at the last 10 years and feel nostalgic on how good these years were with their little bot armies, cute clickbait and adorable fake news.
Oh wow. Thats a bleak but very convincing outlook you have painted. Lets pray this doesnt come to pass.
Interesting you don't mention Israel doing a fucking GENOCIDE and the USA supporting it.
This is the kind of commitment the post is taking about.
They event, while deplorable, doesn't really generate new bot flow. The same conservative and Russian style bots are already up and running.
You don't think the US and Israel have an online presence pushing propaganda? I've noticed some odd voting patterns on some posts relating to the genocide and recent bombings.
I never said that. Of course they do. But they've always been here.
Israel ramping up their genocide so significantly and a new US military campaign in the Middle East seems like a great reason to increase propaganda activity. I have a feeling it will only continue to get worse as the conflict spreads.
A fair consideration.
Give it a rest.
No, the US is not supporting genocide.
When the Jewish people took the motto NEVER AGAIN what, exactly, did you think that meant? Did you think it would mean "oh please, Sir, don't hurt us please?"
Hamas, seeking the elimination of the Jews of Israel decided to find out, and used their own population as shields.
You reap what you sow.
Why are they atacking Jordan then?
Hamas seeks no such thing and your blind acceptance of what is inherently a racist perspective based on Islamophobia is extremely telling.
Yeah, it'd be real fucked up if Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, all allied and interconnected Iran-backed terrorist groups, had direct calls for jihad and genocide in their charters and mottos, or founder and leader quotes saying they are glad Israel exists because it saves them the trouble of hunting the Jewish diaspora
OH WAIT
THEY DO
If you want to talk about violence, any level of violence, as a legitimate response to colonialism, especially when it enters the ethnic cleansing stage, fair enough, but don't pretend they're not genocidal fuckwits themselves with plenty of proof for their intentions.
If you want to know why Lemmy is full of pissed off people fighting in the comments it's because half the people who comment on Lemmy have the fact checking ability of a mentally incapable squirrel and they'll repeat any damn thing they hear.
The leadership explicitly refuses to repudiate the old charter that called for genocide, and has directly said they can't do that politically, or even call it a replacement.
It shouldn't be too hard to figure out why, you sure as hell wouldn't be pretending you don't understand why MAGA leaders won't criticize the Confederacy or the KKK.
The cheaper and easier it gets to produce and distribute content online, the more I am convinced that we will need to start requiring people to put something of actual value at stake to let them join a social network. The sad thing is that, aside from simply charging money for access, there is nothing that I see that could be used but not abused by governments or corporations.