…are some questions posted here so out of place that they feel like made up with AI? Or made to train AI? Don’t get me wrong, I love the genuine discussions here and I do engage, but some questions are just too… Forced? I’d love to give an example, but I won’t, because I don’t intend to out anybody. ^^

  • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
    12·
    23 days ago

    I agree some questions feel forced, even rhetorical. I have a hard time believing it’s AI. I think it’s either a bunch of alt accounts from one guy who needs help winning arguments or a bunch of people roaming around in very weird social circles.

    But yeah, there’s days Lemmy feels like a breath fresh air, and then it feels like someone is playing shenanigans in multiple communities for a few hours.

  • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    23 days ago

    Everything I don’t like is AI, of course.

    Probably just some people asking questions to raise engagement and grow the community.

  • gurty@lemmy.world
    5·
    23 days ago

    I’ve been picking up on this too. I think that wherever American politics appears on a social app, a legion of bots are sent and things go weird.

  • leadore@lemmy.world
    4·
    23 days ago

    I’ve seen just a few that I suspected were AI, wouldn’t be able to prove it but they had that vibe–they were personal stories where someone describes something that happened and ask for people’s opinions about it. Some of the lines were very typical AI-cliche sounding to me, and the situations didn’t seem like something that would really happen . So I wouldn’t accuse the OP of pasting slop in for the entertainment of watching people argue about some made-up situation, but I also wouldn’t reply to them either. I’ve read that they’re getting that kind of thing on Reddit so I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened here too.

    • durinn@programming.devOPEnglish
      2·
      23 days ago

      Love the analogy! I wouldn’t even mind the technology itself. It’s a really smart way of indexing and then outputting that which has been indexed according to the algorithm of your choice. It could be such a powerful tool in the right circumstances - hospitals, schools, libraries, dyslexic or deaf people, whathaveyou. But I’m so incredibly disappointed at how the general population bought into the “AI” jargon and discourse. It’s detrimental to critical thinking and to human ingenuity.

  • MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world
    2·
    23 days ago

    Ultimately, who is responsible for the content on the platform? Who should be held accountable for shit content? How much privacy are YOU willing to give up in order to ensure that only verified biological humans are on your platform of choice? There’s no good answer here, except that maybe we put too much faith in social media and minimized all the ways it touches our lives.

    The snake is eating itself. Can’t trust Amazon sellers, Google reviews, YouTube videos. Can’t trust that there’s a real person behind that social media profile. Don’t know if the how-to guide was created by a trusted professional or a random ChatGPT subscriber.

    Growing pains of the Information Age. Two steps forward, three steps back.

    • durinn@programming.devOPEnglish
      1·
      23 days ago

      Fortunately for me, and I’m kinda sorry for saying this but, I don’t actually care. I was raised to be media literate, how to vet sources, how to meditate on any matter and transform thesis, arguments and analysis into written or spoken word and I am living up to these expectations on my own free will. What somebody else chooses to do on a personal level is up to them. I figure I have about 60 years left to live and by the time the above mentioned skills - or the lack thereof - start to affect society on a level that I as an individual cannot ignore of suffer involuntary consequences of, I will be dead. I think.

      • MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world
        2·
        19 days ago

        Love your optimism! In an world increasing obsessed with doomerism, it’s rare to meet someone who actually thinks society won’t collapse in the next 15 years, much less 60. I wish you the best!