I’ve had a pretty depressing morning, scrolling through my Subscribed feed and realising that 90% of new posts were from the same two bot accounts (bagel and somethingmelon, can’t be remeber exactly and I’ve blocked them.)
Thankfully, a few people had made “ai slop” comments under one, so I checked the post history and, sure, a new account posting at a implausible rate. And once you started looking at the posts they were kinda samey, generic or a bit off. But I think that if the bot had been programmed to post at a slower rate, I don’t think I’d have really noticed.
So my question is, should people be allowed to report bot accounts? And can/should mods be expected at assess someone’s humanity? The very idea is gross, but so is the thought that lemmy would be very easily swamped by a small number of more careful written bots.
When you make a report, it goes to the mods of that community, but it also goes to the Admins of their home instance.
Generally, people take a dim view of AI content and remove it once it’s apparent.
Yes, I’d say report it when you see it. If you see something, say something.
InfiniteBagel already got banned for this, so at a minimum, Bagel is ban evading. Same for CosmicWaffle or whatever the other one was.