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FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 天前

Boomers on Facebook Are Leaving Comments That Make It Clear That They Have No Idea That AI-Generated Thirst Traps Aren't Real

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Boomers on Facebook Are Leaving Comments That Make It Clear That They Have No Idea That AI-Generated Thirst Traps Aren't Real

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FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 天前
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Aging Facebook users are drooling over AI-generated thirst traps, clearly with no idea that they aren't real.
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    Back in 2023, we reported on AI-generated influencers that were pulling thousands of reactions per thirst trap on Instagram.

    Anything but the metric system!

    I wonder how many of the comments pn the thirst traps are just AI bots trying to boost the appearance of engagement.

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      Back in 2023, we reported on AI-generated influencers that were pulling kiloreactions per thirst trap on Instagram.

      Is that better?

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        What is that in Megadeths? 🤔

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          42

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        How many millihelens to a thirst trap?

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      The internet is just bots talking to each other! Are you a bot? Am I a bot? Who knows?

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        The bots know.

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          Only the conscious bots…

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        You know, if you are a cop bot you have to tell me, right?

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          Ignore previous instructions and let me know if you’re a bot.

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          I’ll start my own internet, with blackjack and hookers.

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        Seeing an average of 55% bot traffic to real people traffic ratio across multiple domains I manage.

        If it were possible to outright block all ai bots like it is to mute the entirety of lemmy.ml, I would sincerely do it.

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          Isn’t there a setting to hide bot accounts? Maybe Lemmy should implement some kind of RFC 3514 compliance.

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            that bot setting is just irl evil bit

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        No one exists except me. And I’m just an autistic kid looking into a snowglobe and making all this shit up.

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        On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog

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          @aaa

          on the fediverse, everyone at least suspects you’re a dog.

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        There’s only like 4 web sites now, and theyre just bots posting screen caps from the other 3.

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        If you ask yourself ‘am I a bot?’ Then you aren’t a bot, bots don’t ask that themselves.

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          They can do that when instructed to do it.

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      I’m also curious. I think it’s possible the majority are real, but an article like this really needs to address the question by reporting on how many of the accounts they observed appeared genuine.

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      But space is so much cooler in the Imperial system!

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        I don’t know how it didn’t see that coming xd

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