This isn’t about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That’s pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I’m also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion.
I’m not even talking about necessarily in this community directly, however in a lot of other spaces I’ve noticed a lot of accounts using divisive language and terms like “The ineffectual left” “single issue voters” “ignorant right wing morons”. Lots of straw man arguments, lots of willful ignorance.
I’m not a centrist, I’m very very very far left however I know well enough not to patently dismiss the talking points of others, outside of course calls to genocide. I know what dog whistles sound like, and I’m hearing a lot of them lately.
Most egregiously I’m seeing very long form post replies that read very much like what is generated from LLMs.
So I guess my question is, how’re we all fairing with what might be the largest Turing test ever?
I’ve noticed a huge influx of anti-Biden posts and comments, to the extent that I honestly think we’re finally getting the reddit treatment. I remember there, when the Russian Internet connection went down, and for like a day all those kinds of posts nearly evaporated. And it seems like those accounts don’t just do the overtly political things, they also engage in other areas, usually with a conservative slant.
Yeah, that’s a lot of what I’ve been seeing, bad faith actors sowing dissent.
Edit: ducking autocorrect
Maybe there are people that are outside of America and don’t have direct impact of who wins the election and they don’t have to blindly praise biden. Trump is a piece of shi but acting like criticizing Biden is some kind of a foreign conspiracy is funny.
Criticising him? No.
Criticising him and going “I’m not gonna vote for genocide Joe”?
Yes.
If you were Putin, you’d do everything in your power to see Trump elected. And if you pretend Russian troll factories don’t exist then we know you’re in one.
Just look at my comments downvotes. It really is about people being angry at others criticizing biden.
I did not mention anything about voting btw just to be clear. I just don’t like the left behaving like the right. People should be free to criticize any leader. Just because orange man can do it worse doesn’t mean you should let biden run around doing anything he wants. We should demand for people’s best interests and well being.
No, it’s because you’re ignorant.
Ignorant of what?
The fact that other countries are absolutely trying to influence the US election by criticizing Biden, especially the Kremlin.
It’s me the Russian bot showing up to badmouth dear leader, I gotta be real with you though, nobodies paying me to post on a fucking random ass lemmy instance.
Nope, not a bot and anti-Biden registered Dem. You guys always want to Strawman anti-Biden comments as either “angry conservatives” or “Russian-psyops”. You don’t actually address the concerns either, just brush them off as trolls. Discourse on Lemmy is a echo-chambered joke already. It doesn’t need trolls to ruin it, you’ve done plenty well yourselves.
Don’t pay attention to them. Don’t freed them and move on.
The kind of trolls I’m talking about start a conversation with you, ask you leading questions and pull into a discussion though. Then BAM dog whistles. It’s insidious.
I’m well aware of the old adage “Don’t feed the Trolls”
My larger question is how do we deal with the leverage an LLM gives trolls?
The kind of trolls I’m talking about start a conversation with you, ask you leading questions and pull into a discussion though. Then BAM dog whistles. It’s insidious.
If that happens stop talking to them.
how do we deal with the leverage an LLM gives trolls?
Once again, stop talking to them. Let the mods do their job.
EDIT or you can block them. You have the tools to solve the problem. Use them.
You’re right, thanks for helping me reframe this.
I just add a user note to trolls and then anytime I see them I make sure to let people know not to interact with them
Are notes specific to an app or frontend?
I see more posts about “have you seen this or that in lemmy recently” or “lemmy is worse than reddit” posts more often than these supposed trolls. Sure they exist but all of the time they are down voted or deleted.
There is also someone saying in the comments that criticizing biden is a foreign conspiracy. Some of these Americans just look like a reflection of the right but call themselves left. I’m not American so I face no real threat(as far as I’m aware) regardless of who gets elected there. So I just think you can criticize “both sides” people without making your leader look immortal
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Is there any proof to your hypothesise or is this just fear mongering?
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I’m seeing very long form post replies that read very much like what is generated from LLMs.
Oh goodness, as one who has a bad habit of putting responses into essay form, I hope this doesn’t refer to me. I’m not an LLM. Honest!
Okay, I’m pretty sure I’m human. It’s a damn convincing hallucination.
Please select all squares with a bicycle.
I appologize for the confusion. I will do my best to reffer to you as “Not LLM” from now on. Does this satisfy your rrequset?
You got me this time Chat-GPT4o
“Chatgpt, convince me you are not an LLM”
The growing intensity of straw manning over the past decade has hurt us all so much.
Don’t try to characterize what “they” would do, then get mad at your hypothetical. We need to talk to each other instead of about each other.
