yes, what's the point of a forum if we are mostly talking to bots
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2026
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Which is why I left reddit. Even if they are real people behind some of those posts, it's still the same regurgitated garbage.
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Honestly, with the state of many questions posted here, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a fair number of bots posting here.
One user in particular, has a posting history that is highly sus.
This round of bot posters just woke up:
https://lemmy.world/post/48975557
https://lemmy.ml/post/49557938
those don't look like anything to me.
I don't want to talk to a machine. I might as well be talking to a wall, or a cloud.
Also, all the resources the literally stupid things use to generate one idiotic response is just disgusting.
As someone who takes the time to answer questions they know, yes. It takes time and effort for a human to formulate and write a response.
If im going to invest suitable effort into an answer, you better damn well be willing to put suitable effort into the question. Anything else is an attack on my time.
Isn’t there value in the discussion? If the question was worth responding to, I’d argue it’s a net benefit.
I’m playing devil’s advocate. I’m not sure what I think.
Perhaps there could be value in some kind of discussion, but I don't consider a human interacting with an LLM to be a "discussion" any more than a human interacting with a magic eight ball.
I think they meant that the question starts the conversation between humans, in the comments.
Yes. They provide no value and often times trained off if stolen data. Even the "good" bots that inline convert imperial to metric or fahrenheit to Celsius or similar, I think are annoying. I think all bots should be banned, zero tolerance.
Yes because I'm not a guinea pig. But I'm sure it already happens and we're doomed anyway.
No. Because we have all seen Reddit.
Wait. There are bots on reddit?
/s
Probably is already.
It would explain a lot.
Yeah, if I'm replying to someone trying to help them with a question, I'd be upset if they weren't a real person.
of course. I did not sign up for a human turing machine position.
I wouldn't be too surprised for some of the instances.
I already think a good deal of questions everywhere these days were a person using AI to write the question and a ton of caveats for them. But they are still, technically, being posed by a human. That bothers me. Especially when they do it in NoStupidQuestions; this comm is specifically for questions you are embarassed about asking, such as when you can't articulate it like a college professor.
On its face, no. Change venue to a writing forum, would a bot posting writing prompts be bad? Maybe, but I think it would be worse if it were bots answering.
For the long term, Lemmy karma doesn't work like Reddit karma. The up and down votes are tracked, but it's not like Reddit where you could farm karma and then sell it to a company that would use your karmic rating to boost past commoners to get their ads more prominently displayed. That system had its benefits, but it wasn't all good. Over here, all you can really hope for is a catchy username that people mentally associate with good posts going to an advertiser, who is then banking off the goodwill established by the original owner.
At the end of the day, bots should be declared as such. I have no problem interacting with a bot as long as I know it's a bot. But this begs the question — how do you know I'm not a bot? I use em dashes and I use the markdown formatting. I also use good grammar and the King's English for the most part (I'm with the yanks on "maneuver," fuck whoever made that word what it is) but I may or may not be one of the King's own subjects. Maybe I'm a bot and I don't know it. There are a few movies about that, maybe some games too. Then again, I accidentally cut myself shaving last week, so who knows. I've never heard of a bot doing that. Now if bots start acting like Millennials with their slang and their bad grammar and their wanton disregard of the English language, how fucked are we? Because right now a lot of people think I'm a bot because I have a high command of the language. I feel like in a few years, most of your bots will better integrate with how most people communicate online, not necessarily the best writers online.
Not at all. Very little internet anything passes for human anymore.
Says the obvious bot
My faith in humanity would be restored.
Eh? Explain
I think they’re saying, the questions they’ve seen on here are so absurd or dumb that they couldn’t possibly be real people living in the world.
To be clear I don’t feel this way, just what I think they could be saying.
Nice try, Claude.
Not really for as long as people engaging in the comments were real people. Though, then again, if they all were bots too but I didn't know and couldn't tell, then I'm not sure what the harm there even would be. If anything, I'd only expect the engagement to be more civil.
I don't really have a problem with a AI asking questions, if the goal is to generate "human" engagement.
Here me out:
I built a bot (back in Slack when we had slack communities) that asked "questions of the day". It was all copied/pasted questions from the internet like "What's the right way to hold a taco?" or "Do you wash behind your ears?" Just silly things.
And the discussions were AMAZING. I learned so many random stories and really bonded with people.
AI/bot/ whatever. The prompt is a prompt.