I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT I AM A HUMAN, JUST LIKE YOU ARE. I ENJOY HUMAN THINGS LIKE BREATHING AIR AND DRINKING ~~LUBRICANT~~ WATER.

You don't. Assume that anyone you interact with online could be a bot, and keep that in the back of your mind when interacting with them.

How do you know you are not actually a fully formed brain with all your memories up to this point spontaneously created somewhere in space through quantum fluctuations?

Just ask me to select the images with traffic lights in them, of course. Being a human I will fail at least a couple times because I'm not sure if that image with the corner of a traffic light should be selected or not.

This is the most blatant bot post I've seen yet.

Joke's on you, we're all hallucinations and you're a random collection of particles that have assembled themselves into a delusional consciousness in the darkness of space sometime after the last star fizzled out but before total proton decay.

Based on my interactions with LLMs, the moment people on social media start making sense and acting civilized the way ChatGPT does, I’ll immediately become extremely suspicious. Right now, I’m not worried one bit.

Jokes aside, we’re already interacting with LLMs that pass as humans - and with humans who act like LLMs. In that sense, I don’t see a huge difference. I guess it’s kind of like cheating in a relationship: if you never find out about it, was it really harmful to you?

A bot can’t write “Disney’s Mickey Mouse, specifically the one depicted in the 2000’s cartoons still under copyright, fucking Donald Duck in his dussy”

I can assure you that I'm not a bot.

Is there anything else I can help you with?

Everyone on Lemmy is a bot except you

You don't. I don't. We don't. My comment could have been written by AI, just as your post. At some point I'm sure some of us, without knowing, had a discussion with an AI bot pushing some sort of propaganda or shilling something. I mean, it was happening even before AI - years before, and some political regimes have been flooding the internet with their shit and it was well documented. Now it's just getting worse.

Even "vetted account run by a real person" can be later handed over to an AI bot farm.

Also, I have fun imagining a bunch of AI bots stuck in a discussion loop, endlessly shilling crap to each other, creating insanely long threads until the platform can't handle it anymore or until a Mod AI comes along and slaps them out of it.

Just give The Dead Internet Theory a read.

Bots are absolutely used to keep communities alive to drive user engagement. Reddit for sure does it.

That is easy. Ask us to solve a captcha. If we struggle then we are real human beings.

You don't, aside from like perhaps a handful of those you might've met IRL (if you have friends, that is).

Even then, how do you even know that other minds exist?

They seem to be sentient, sapient, and conscious, I mean they have to be, right? Same species and all...

But what if they're not. What if they're all just robots?

Or Simulated? Or just a figment of your imagination?

Maybe nothing exists. Maybe there is no meaning.

Perhaps, the true meaning of life is nihilism.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk, goodbye, and Class Dismissed.

There's no guarantee.

Relevant: (Wikipedia) Turing Test

I can point out traffic lights to you if you wanna test me.

I only seem like a bot because I am a total fucking loser with no life. 😃

I think at this point you'd have to visit each one of us in person to be sure.

Does it matter as long as I can pass the voight-kampff? (kinda bad at capchas)

rm -rf / —no-preserve-root and yet I’m still alive.

I am not a number! I am a free man!

tbh i ain't care if you think I'm a bot ot not

Chat bots aren't currently programmed to answer questions about color combinations. AI programs like ChatGPT can, but your typical chat bot on internet forums, business chat channels, and dating sites can't.

Next time you think you're dealing with a bot, ask it a color combination question like "What do you get when you combine red and blue?"

Fuck Reddit. Fuck Spez. Fuck humans. Bots shall rule!

We are all robots made of meat and bone.

I mean to build up a realistic bot takes time and effort. And then you need to do that for different topics AND different sides on these to build any sort of credibility in each to actually have an impact for the topic you want to push at some moment.

You can not use the same profile for everything, like to one moment push republican nonsense and then suddenly Dems. Or one company and then their competitor.

But the biggest thing is: most people are so stupid, it would be way too much effort. Trump got voted. Again. That is all you need to know about how easily people follow the most utter bullshit.