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?
If someone claims something happened on the fediverse without providing a link, they’re lying.
I appreciate you doing your part to fact check, but I invented that rule, and I always have the receipts. Don’t come for the king.
Case in point, the thread in question was removed, but I was able to find the relevant comment through the search function. A comment from Unruffled, reading:
As a follow up, I asked, “Is there any way to get a list of .dbzero communities that do/don’t ban AI so that I don’t have to block your entire instance?” to which they replied, “Lol must keep your eyeballs pure eh?”, at which point I blocked the whole instance.
You’re free to ask Unruffled to clarify their stance or ask some other mod who might overrule them or whatever, but until you can show me a statement otherwise, I’m assuming that the rule is:
Because that’s what I was very directly told.