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I feel like there is a pending wave of AI bots incoming (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/lemmyworld

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Everything on here is awesome right now, it feels like an online forum from the 2000s, everyone is friendly, optimistic, it feels like the start to something big.

Well, as we all know, AI has gotten very smart to the point captcha's are useless, and it can engage in social forums disguised as a human.

With Reddit turning into propaganda central anda greedy CEO that has the motive to sell Reddit data to AI farms, I worry that the AI will be able to be prompted to target websites such as the websites in the fediverse.

Right now it sounds like paranoia, but I think we are closer to this reality than we may know.

Reddit has gotten nuked, so we built a new community, everyone is pleasantly surprised by the change of vibe around here, the over all friendlyness, and the nostalgia of old forums.

Could this be the calm before the storm?

How will the fediverse protect its self from these hypothetical bot armies?

Do you think Reddit/big companies will make attacks on the fediverse?

Do you think clickbait posts will start popping up in pursuit of ad revenue?

What are your thoughts and insights on this new "internet 2.0"?

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[–] T156 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spam-bots attacks are already happening, it means the fediverse is already recognized as a valid alternative to big corporations, tho I don’t believe the fediverse is seen as a “threat” by them, not yet at least.

It doesn't all have to be big corporations. All that really needs to happen is that spammers consider Lemmy communities big enough that they have a good chance of making money by spamming those communities.

I doubt that they really care all that much. Reddit's CEO basically brushed off the blackout protests, saying that they would blow over. He's probably not wrong there, unfortunately. Although some parts might leave for good, that would just be a tiny amount, and even the blackouts led to a 6.6% reduction in traffic. The proportion that did up and leave would be much smaller, at least for the time being. That may go up once the API changes go into effect.