this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2023
336 points (99.4% liked)
Technology
59974 readers
3693 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
Unfortunately, such detection methods are often completely unreliable. It might be able to detect obvious cases, but it's no good at detecting the difference between smarter bots and people.
There's a guy called upper echelon on YouTube that made a video showing how much social media is actually bots and its terrifying! Something like more than 50% aren't human posts.
That's... Eerily scary
Accurate too. conspiracy theory my ass.