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I feel like there is a pending wave of AI bots incoming

Everything on here is awesome right now, it feels like an online forum from the 2000s, everyone is friendly, optimistic, it feels like the start to something big.

Well, as we all know, AI has gotten very smart to the point captcha's are useless, and it can engage in social forums disguised as a human.

With Reddit turning into propaganda central anda greedy CEO that has the motive to sell Reddit data to AI farms, I worry that the AI will be able to be prompted to target websites such as the websites in the fediverse.

Right now it sounds like paranoia, but I think we are closer to this reality than we may know.

Reddit has gotten nuked, so we built a new community, everyone is pleasantly surprised by the change of vibe around here, the over all friendlyness, and the nostalgia of old forums.

Could this be the calm before the storm?

How will the fediverse protect its self from these hypothetical bot armies?

Do you think Reddit/big companies will make attacks on the fediverse?

Do you think clickbait posts will start popping up in pursuit of ad revenue?

What are your thoughts and insights on this new "internet 2.0"?

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  • How will the fediverse protect its self from these hypothetical bot armies?

    It's up to administrators and moderators of each server me thinks

    Do you think Reddit/big companies will make attacks on the fediverse?

    Right now It would bring more harm to them and extra accounts to us me thinks, but maybe in the future they create some boycott and controversy. ATM however Meta aka Facebook wants to join Mastodon

    Do you think clickbait posts will start popping up in pursuit of ad revenue?

    Is it even possible to make ads in lemmy?

    • Ads embedded within links, yes. Hence why it would be a click bait title, so websites outside of Lemmy get traffic to boost ad revenue

      • Im sorry I missunderstood. I hope that good administration will prevent that. Do reddit has some other tools at it disposal to prevent that?

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