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Bots everywhere or am I losing it? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 18 hours ago by schmorpel@slrpnk.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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While browsing the fediverse I come across more and more accounts that seem ... a bit off, a little uncanny. The stuff they post seems random, their comments slightly weird. What's going on, is the fediverse being overrun by bots? Or am I as a fanatic anti-AI person just losing my mind and seeing the enemy everywhere?

I hate the fact that I now question every interaction that seems a bit off - it seems such a stupid waste of my time and I'm afraid I might just end up blocking real people who happen to express themselves in a strange way - as a neurodivergent person I know how bad I would feel about being ostracized as 'too strange to be real'. How would you handle this?

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Why hello!

I can see from your post that you like losing it; that's great, it's something we have in common!
Have you considered using Mountain Dew? It helps me making losing it even better! Maybe it can help you too. Give it a try!

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I was thinking about doing a post like this. :D

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I was tempted to do a 'Every person on lemmy is a bot except you' before realising that the bots have taken that kind of post from us as well.

Edit: Come to think of it the way bots work is kind of like an automated version of how big companies used to kill memes by using them in their marketing to try and seem trendy. Murdering internet culture automatically by washing it out with repeated garbage.