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[YCoCg]

2025 continues on giving, thank you AI overlords?

 

[Sub_Level]

Yeah youtube comments are full of them. Maybe message boards will make a comeback lol we have had bots here but they been quiet lately.

 

[Doom85]

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

some humans can be bots tho

 

[Maiden Voyage]

some humans can be bots tho

There are no tops without bots

 

[Doom85]

some humans can be bots tho

Weird time to pitch your Robocop fanfiction, but okay.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Weird time to pitch your Robocop fanfiction, but okay.

 

[AJUMP23]

Bots post thots. I mean Thoughts

 

[Kilau]

Why did Lex use monkeys and not AI?

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

There are no tops without bots

you need a power bot to have a power top though...

 

[Doom85]

Why did Lex use monkeys and not AI?

 

[YCoCg]

Why did Lex use monkeys and not AI?

The AI is controlling the monkeys duh!

 

[T.v]

It's very apparent in places like YT or Insta. I reckon it's over half there. We cannot assume anything on the internet is real or genuine anymore.

 

[March Climber]

Yeah youtube comments are full of them. Maybe message boards will make a comeback lol we have had bots here but they been quiet lately.

I think the more negative/rage-bait ones slowed down a bit once they were successful in what they were assigned to do.

 

[Idleyes]

I'm honestly shocked there are still real humans willingly checking the YouTube comment section. That's like jumping in a pool everyone admits shitting in.

 

[Paltheos]

Yeah youtube comments are full of them. Maybe message boards will make a comeback lol we have had bots here but they been quiet lately.

We still get them (look at the site ban history), but on the whole they seem to be low in number. Chalk it up to GAF's relative nicheness and the burdensome process of applying for membership.

 

[Icymanipulator]

Makes me kind of sad. Oh well.
I'll go on some social media and complain to a bot about it I guess.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

2025 continues on giving, thank you AI overlords?

Terminator??

 

[thief183]

I hope in a rebirth of the old style Internet, with small community of real ppl that share a passion, like this forum for example.

We should ban making content using AI, not cause we are against it but just to keep this as a safe space for humans.

 

[Ironbunny]

Watching Twitter has made this pretty apparent

 

[Wildebeest]

No way is that much traffic from people posting text messages on social media. You are probably looking at automated attacks to try to do things like steal accounts and commit fraud. That sort of thing.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Doesn't surprise me one bit. They're all over Facebook pushing agendas, and I think they're on YouTube pushing products. Couldn't help but notice these overly enthusiastic comments in WWE/AEW videos that just don't feel like they're coming from actual people.

 

[diffusionx]

We still get them (look at the site ban history), but on the whole they seem to be low in number. Chalk it up to GAF's relative nicheness and the burdensome process of applying for membership.

You say this like the mods caught all of us... I mean, them. Them.

 

[Ikutachi]

and I think they're on YouTube pushing products.

Yeah, I see book recommendations all the time.

 

[ahtlas7]

Bots are really into porn.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Twitter is awful for this. I read comments to try and get a feel for the pulse, and it seems like 90% bots to me. Or humans with the mental capacity of pre-LLM bots.

Endless laugh-cry emojis, asking what the video was about (because bots can't process video), broken English, posting unrelated previously-viral tweets. It's garbage.

GAF seems mostly free of them, and mods are quick to act on the obvious ones. We do have one member here I'm like 75% sure is a bot that the mods keep around because he's harmless and actually talks about video games.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

Bots are really into porn.

 

[IntentionalPun]

I'm sure they just mean traffic that isn't human. Vast majority of that isn't automated posting on web sites but code that is pulling in data from the web.

 

[BigDeadFreak]

How can people tell that someone is a bot? I've never really given it much thought but I don't go on social media outside of forums and Youtube.

 

[jason10mm]

What a great topic, I really appreciate the poster who started it. I have lots of thoughts about it but I'd like to hear what you think first!

 

[jason10mm]

This topic is just fake news. No way bots could do all that. We should just go to McDonalds and get a refreshing Pepsi instead, then watch netflix and chill, ordering from amazon and ubereats.

 

[Doom85]

This topic is just fake news. No way bots could do all that. We should just go to McDonalds and get a refreshing Pepsi instead, then watch netflix and chill, ordering from amazon and ubereats.

 

[spons]

Define internet traffic. If it's raw bytes, then no fucking way.

 

[IntentionalPun]

Define internet traffic. If it's raw bytes, then no fucking way.

It's probably number of requests made.

Everyone is going to think this is about posts made on sites of course, but who needs real info when we have tweets with no linked source?

 

[Poppinfresh]

It's very apparent in places like YT or Insta. I reckon it's over half there. We cannot assume anything on the internet is real or genuine anymore.

Reddit is probably worse than both of those combined. Not only do you have bots responding to posts, but you also have them creating content and moderating subreddits.

It's particularly bad in the larger, "front page" subreddits.

The Dead Internet Theory is becoming reality...

 

[Kabelly]

it's sad. ai and bots just make the internet feel unnatural if that makes sense. it makes me touch grass a bit more though.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I've noticed Youtube comments are not as awful as they once were. I am going to now assume it's bots being used to play nice and positive to every video posted.

 

[Forsete]

Watching Twitter has made this pretty apparent

Truthbomb, the place is even more useless now.

 

[Lionel Richie]

The internet was a mistake, we need to go outside.