I jump between social networks every few years. My social network path has gone from AOL chat groups, to Yahoo News groups, to Facebook for a few years, to Twitter, to Mastodon, to Reddit.
Last week I decided to test Lemmy out. Best thing I can say about it is that it’s not any worse than all the others. Which is a pretty good compliment really, considering the resources and network advantages that all the others have.
BOT! FOUND ONE! INTERNET ATTACK!
Please don’t respond to this comment.
There is one simple trick to determine if you are talking to a bot. Ask the person you are talking to not to respond to a comment.
“No offense, but I’m going to check to see if you are a bot. Please don’t reply to this comment.”
Current LLMs can’t not respond. They will often write that they are “really insulted that you would say that” and that the test “doesn’t prove anything”, but they can’t not respond.
I’m sure eventually the programmers will hard code in a simple defeat for this test soon enough, but for now it still works well.
They were so… Innocent.
Like, everyone trusted everyone. Like, sure perfect stranger online, I don’t mind telling you my real name, home address, and age. What’s the harm?