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.
What do you mean, “should they be allowed to report?” The report button works regardless of what kind of account you’re reporting.
If you mean “should the accounts be allowed”, then that’s entirely up to the communities and the instances involved. Some may be fine with them, others might not, it’s not anything that can be decided globally.
If you’re in a community that’s allowing accounts you don’t want to see then block the account.
I know you can click report, but I wasn’t sure if “suspected llm bot” was a legitimate complaint. Similarly, other commentators have said that it’s spam and can reported as such, but I wasn’t sure if this kind of ai posting was consider spam. They’re mostly posting in lots of different communities, and not just reposting the same shit. Tbh, if they had just slowed the pace to a few a day rather than 10+ an hour, I don’t think anyone would have noticed. So, I just wanted to check whether it was a legit reason to report a post.
Whether it’s a “legitimate complaint” is the community-dependent thing, I guess. Check the rules of the communities they’re posting in. The instance being used by the bot account may also have rules about how people can use accounts there, I’m not sure how to report an account to their home instance but that seems like the sort of thing that should exist.