You're talking about one of the oldest lemmy instances, the most active established instance, and the instance with highest per capita activity, at a time when activity has suddenly become higher than ever because suddenly there are a bunch of redditors saying awful shit all over our feeds and we can go dunk on them without needing to bother with accounts on different sites for the first time in over three years.
You're also vastly overestimating what bots require and do: all we have to do is look at the largest and most sophisticated botnets - the CIA/State Department astroturfing botnets - to see how even the laziest and crudest copy/pasta spam is all it takes to completely dominate and drown out opposition. Literally no one needs to be sneaky, just yell the exact same verbatim press release quote over and over from ten thousand firstnamelastname12345 accounts with stock photo profile pics and you control the conversation completely and no one cares if you get caught out, like the CIA/State Department bots constantly do.
You're also claiming that the instance was built up with chatbots more sophisticated than anything there is today - and all of those still-not-coherent most-sophisticated AIs are extremely expensive to run - starting at a time when the most advanced language generating AI was GPT-2, which was only a step or so above old markov chain babbling. You can literally go and look at the ancient post history yourself.
I would believe you, but it's very possible you're a bot and everything you just said is an AI trained to say this in order to make people reduce their doubts about your user authenticity.
Or you could go and look at the three years of post history the community has, which notably does not revolve around some herculean effort to gaslight a tiny handful of people from sites that did not exist for 90% of hexbear's existence and that no one had any realistic expectation would ever exist.
The entire theory rests on the idea that [insert bad country] had LLMs that were five years ahead of the curve and the supercomputers to run them, and this was devoted to generating massive amounts of content on the speculation that maybe someday it would provide legitimization in a fringe internet community, instead of using that massive technological and material advantage to spam as hard as possible with infinite free burner accounts on mainstream social media sites.
The entire theory rests on the idea that [insert bad country] had LLMs that were five years ahead of the curve and the supercomputers to run them, and this was devoted to generating massive amounts of content on the speculation that maybe someday it would provide legitimization in a fringe internet community, instead of using that massive technological and material advantage to spam as hard as possible with infinite free burner accounts on mainstream social media sites.
LOL try to be a little more realistic of a bot, no human talks like.
If you really thought they person you were talking too was an AI, you wouldn't be trying these snarky jabs. What, you think you're going to hurt a computers feelings?
Through various accounts I gave been on hexbear since the beginning. I have watched the community grow from a handful of displaced Redditors, to the vibrant community it is today. I can guarantee none of them are bots.
You can't possibly comprehend that views different to the mainstream have such large support so you've convinced yourself that everyone you disagree with is a bot.
I wish I could do that.
When I disagree with people, I have to consider their views.
You just post "bot lol." And get on with your day.
You could just, I don't know, browse my posting history and see the very human things I've posted.
I've got two years of stuff on this account.
Some shitposts, some sincere.
You on the other hand have been on this site, what, nine hours. During that time you have mostly posted extremely similar comments about how everyone else must be foreign bots.
So you're just gonna double down on the "actually my shadowy enemies are both impossibly more technologically advanced than the imperial core, but also too stupid to use that advantage and instead waste massive amounts of effort specifically in preparation to gaslight me, the main character, due to their impossible prescience that one day I, the main character, would be using a fringe social media website in the middle of the night, prescience that is literally only used for that one purpose and that purpose alone because it so import to trick me, the main character," theory then?
Congratulations, you've successfully gaslit yourself into defining away everyone who disagrees with you as a "bot" and now find yourself haunted on all sides by your shadowy enemies.
And for everyone else: what do you think the odds are some of this unfortunate poster's brainworm infestation was seeded by literal CIA/State Department astroturfing bots? I give it about a 50/50 that that was an important infection vector, and a good 90% chance that they've nodded along while looking at CIA copypasta bot and uncritically believed whatever racist thing it was telling them to.
Remember that time it was leaked that Mi5 was running a bot farm out of a disused mill?
The British state had (has?) a literal propaganda mill.
For months leading up to the general election, you'd see the same comments in their tens, sometimes hundreds, popping up to defend Boris Johnson. And the same same copy-paste comments attacking Jeremy Corbyn.
You're talking about one of the oldest lemmy instances, the most active established instance, and the instance with highest per capita activity, at a time when activity has suddenly become higher than ever because suddenly there are a bunch of redditors saying awful shit all over our feeds and we can go dunk on them without needing to bother with accounts on different sites for the first time in over three years.
You're also vastly overestimating what bots require and do: all we have to do is look at the largest and most sophisticated botnets - the CIA/State Department astroturfing botnets - to see how even the laziest and crudest copy/pasta spam is all it takes to completely dominate and drown out opposition. Literally no one needs to be sneaky, just yell the exact same verbatim press release quote over and over from ten thousand firstnamelastname12345 accounts with stock photo profile pics and you control the conversation completely and no one cares if you get caught out, like the CIA/State Department bots constantly do.
You're also claiming that the instance was built up with chatbots more sophisticated than anything there is today - and all of those still-not-coherent most-sophisticated AIs are extremely expensive to run - starting at a time when the most advanced language generating AI was GPT-2, which was only a step or so above old markov chain babbling. You can literally go and look at the ancient post history yourself.
I would believe you, but it's very possible you're a bot and everything you just said is an AI trained to say this in order to make people reduce their doubts about your user authenticity.
everyone on the internet is a bot except for you
everyone on the internet is a bot except for you
Or you could go and look at the three years of post history the community has, which notably does not revolve around some herculean effort to gaslight a tiny handful of people from sites that did not exist for 90% of hexbear's existence and that no one had any realistic expectation would ever exist.
The entire theory rests on the idea that [insert bad country] had LLMs that were five years ahead of the curve and the supercomputers to run them, and this was devoted to generating massive amounts of content on the speculation that maybe someday it would provide legitimization in a fringe internet community, instead of using that massive technological and material advantage to spam as hard as possible with infinite free burner accounts on mainstream social media sites.
LOL try to be a little more realistic of a bot, no human talks like.
If you really thought they person you were talking too was an AI, you wouldn't be trying these snarky jabs. What, you think you're going to hurt a computers feelings?
Humans will read my comments too.
Yeah, and see that you clearly don't actually think you're arguing with an AI.
I think it's probably about 80% bots 30% humans on hexbear.
Real scientific methodology you have there.
I mean 70 it was an obvious mistake asshole.
I didn't even notice the typo.
80% skill issue, 30% mistake
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such cutting and incisive political analysis
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Whatever, maybe I'm wrong and it's only 40% bots, there' still obviously a lot of them. You're like a pack of wolves on anyone you consider "liberal."
Through various accounts I gave been on hexbear since the beginning. I have watched the community grow from a handful of displaced Redditors, to the vibrant community it is today. I can guarantee none of them are bots.
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Didn't an update break the bots on hexbear?
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This sounds like it could be written by ChatGPT LMFAOO
This is all you have isn't it?
You can't possibly comprehend that views different to the mainstream have such large support so you've convinced yourself that everyone you disagree with is a bot.
I wish I could do that.
When I disagree with people, I have to consider their views.
You just post "bot lol." And get on with your day.
Prove you're real.
You could just, I don't know, browse my posting history and see the very human things I've posted.
I've got two years of stuff on this account.
Some shitposts, some sincere.
You on the other hand have been on this site, what, nine hours. During that time you have mostly posted extremely similar comments about how everyone else must be foreign bots.
Prove your own humanity.
I owe you nothing tankie.
I don’t know why anyone is still bothering to reply to this very obvious CIA bot.
I'm an anarchist you fucking spanner.
Keeping tell yourself that.
I don’t know why anyone is still bothering to reply to this very obvious CIA bot.
You do really have nothing.
"Everyone who disagrees with me is a bot or a tankie.
I, the world's most special boy, can never be wrong. It must be an evil plot by the socialists."
This is what you sound like and it's embarrassing.
I don’t know why anyone is still bothering to reply to this very obvious CIA bot.
Wow, you can tell your numbers are reliable by the way you go "whatever, cut them by 30 percent."
I never said I knew it all, it's just an estimation based on common sense.
Yeah, I can see it was a real educated guess
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Why do liberals always bring out the homophobia when they get angry?
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Being bisexual doesn't give you a license to be homophobic.
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Least homophobic liberal
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Anymore blatant homophobia you want to get out of your system?
I am a bisexual. Calling a QUEER person homophobic makes 0 sense.
Why not?
You go around calling black people racist?
If they're being racist, why wouldn't I?
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I don’t know why anyone is still bothering to reply to this very obvious CIA bot.
In case you’re open-minded enough to be less bigoted:
https://www.scarymommy.com/stop-using-these-homophobic-transphobic-phrases
there are plenty of self-hating queer people. knock it off with the homophobia.
I don’t know why anyone is still bothering to reply to this very obvious CIA bot.
You said the same thing verbatim twice. OBVIOUSLY a bot account, everyone.
I don’t know why anyone is still bothering to reply to this very obvious CIA bot.
I don’t know why anyone is still bothering to reply to this very obvious CIA bot.
I don’t know why anyone is still bothering to reply to this very obvious CIA bot.
So you're just gonna double down on the "actually my shadowy enemies are both impossibly more technologically advanced than the imperial core, but also too stupid to use that advantage and instead waste massive amounts of effort specifically in preparation to gaslight me, the main character, due to their impossible prescience that one day I, the main character, would be using a fringe social media website in the middle of the night, prescience that is literally only used for that one purpose and that purpose alone because it so import to trick me, the main character," theory then?
Buddy the Russians have tens of millions of bots on every site they're not just trying to get me.
The chatbots I'm seeing from you guys aren't even all that realistic.
Congratulations, you've successfully gaslit yourself into defining away everyone who disagrees with you as a "bot" and now find yourself haunted on all sides by your shadowy enemies.
And for everyone else: what do you think the odds are some of this unfortunate poster's brainworm infestation was seeded by literal CIA/State Department astroturfing bots? I give it about a 50/50 that that was an important infection vector, and a good 90% chance that they've nodded along while looking at CIA copypasta bot and uncritically believed whatever racist thing it was telling them to.
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Remember that time it was leaked that Mi5 was running a bot farm out of a disused mill?
The British state had (has?) a literal propaganda mill.
For months leading up to the general election, you'd see the same comments in their tens, sometimes hundreds, popping up to defend Boris Johnson. And the same same copy-paste comments attacking Jeremy Corbyn.
You caught us, we are all
Are these Russians in the room with us right now?
Да. Здравствуйте!
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your worldview is 1) dehumanizing and 2) utterly non-falsifiable. treat people like people.