The Fediverse is a great system for preventing bad actors from disrupting “real” human-human conversations, because all of the mods, developers and admins are all working out of a desire to connect people (as opposed to “trust and safety” teams more concerned about user retention).
Right now it seems that the Fediverses main protection is that it just isn’t a juicy enough target for wide scale spam and bad faith agenda pushers.
But assuming the Fediverse does grow to a significant scale, what (current or future) mechanisms are/could be in place to fend off a flood of AI slop that is hard to distinguish from human? Even the most committed instance admins can only do so much.
For example, I have a feeling all “good” instances in the near future will eventually have to turn on registration applications and only federate with other instances that do the same. But it’s not crazy to imagine that GPT could soon outmaneuver most registration questions which means registrations will only slow the growth of the problem but not manage it long-term.
Any thoughts on this topic?
No one can mark an account as a bot one except you, so maybe its an app that keeps setting it.
i only use firefox; are the instance admins able to set it on your account? (because that would make sense)
when i first joined lemmy, i didn’t understand how it worked so i would sign up with one instance and; when i could no longer up/downvote; i switched to another instances. it eventually led me to joining .ml and it was here i learned about the bot account setting and saw that it was set on the old accounts that i don’t use anymore and i’ve always wondered why.
I’m not sure, but you could probably go into those other accounts and change them to non-bot accounts if you still have access to them.
Yes, that works; but I was only curious as to how it got set in the first place since I didn’t do it.
the toxicity of the reddit liberal instances has been making me delete the other accounts and also makes me hope that I can just stick w .ml.