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Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions (www.404media.co)
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The moderators of a pro-artificial intelligence Reddit community announced that they have been quietly banning “a bunch of schizoposters” who believe “they've made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or become a god,” highlighting a new type of chatbot-fueled delusion that started getting attention in early May.

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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Oh, I'm sure there are bots on Lemmy too. The general userbase, however - of people who are sick of Reddit's BS - are also going to have very little tolerance for bot BS, so the instances are incentivized to try to keep bot activity down lest they be de-federated.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Plus they don't see ad revenue, so there's no profit incentive to keep bots around acting as if they're real traffic. If anything, Lemmy instances are disincentivized from allowing bot traffic because it means more traffic than necessary, which costs them bandwidth.

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