While that wouldn’t be surprising by any means, how was this determined? The account has edits in their posts and has commented gifs, which AFAIK bot accounts can’t do unless manually taken over by a human. Some of their comments do seem overly affirmative and flowery, like an LLM’s would, but I have only take a cursory glance at the account so far.
I legit asked myself this when I would pretend to throw my dog’s ball or hide her toy under her blanket and then sneak it out and have her look for the toy when it’s not actually in the blanket. Does my audience think of me as God or think of themselves as stupid?
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Monday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authorized the Sept. 2 strikes on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean, while saying it was Adm. Frank Bradley who specifically ordered a second strike that killed survivors.
I think somewhere up the grapevine of meme reposting, a bot account altered the meme slightly to avoid automated image recognition software that would help detect bot accounts. I had seen that method before on Reddit with image skewing, cropping, and/or tinting.
Stupid idiot doesn’t even realize that the cartridge’s internal battery has died probably like 10-15 years ago and saving is now impossible, Jesus man go one button press past the load screen
From what I recall, the most common Reddit bot nomenclature was [word][word][number], [first name][last name] (usually feminine to later become a NSFW spammer), and [string of random letters and numbers of various lengths]. Each may have had hyphens, underscores, random typos, or deleted or duplicated letters. Of course, not every bot fit these archetypes.
[word][word][number] was also the default nomenclature for genuine human accounts created through a certain avenue, if I recall. If you go bothunting, be mindful of false positives triggered by one or two red flags.
I appreciate all of the extra work you do in terms of Threadiverse infrastructure and quality of life.
Many Reddit bots have also straight copy+pasted content from Reddit or other social media with only trivial changes to the text or image, if any change, so the Threadiverse needs to be able to catch those as well. A better internal search engine, especially one that can search for strings of text [edit: and one which can search through deleted and removed content], would help users track down if an account’s content was routinely copy+pasted. I think a new instance (unaffiliated with any particular instance) staffed by users familiar with bot detection to flag bot accounts for federated instances to then ban would be the best facsimile of Reddit’s now defunct BotDefense subreddit, which was a critical tool for users to tackle the site’s bot problem.
This account I noticed yesterday is an example of a Threadiverse account just copy+pasting content (or in this case, crossposting to the original community) with little to no change. I have reported it to its host instance as suspicious but it has yet to be removed. An independent and informed instance for flagging bot accounts could more effectively communicate to the host instance as well as to Federated instances that this account is ticking the boxes of a bot account and should be blocked, banned, or at the very least closely monitored.
A detector for bot networks, such as in the screenshot above, would also be helpful. Some sort of indicator of if several accounts are interacting with each other or on the same posts as each other far more often than they are interacting with other accounts and other posts would be helpful.
Maybe like the New Account Highlightenator on the Voyager app, there can be an indicator for when an account has fewer than X amount of posts or comments (i.e. a potential new bot account), as well as an indicator of if the account has returned from a long hiatus of posting/commenting (i.e. a potential former human account that was bought or hacked to become a bot account).
I’ll try to think of more signs of bots and more ways the Threadiverse can build infrastructure against them.
While that wouldn’t be surprising by any means, how was this determined? The account has edits in their posts and has commented gifs, which AFAIK bot accounts can’t do unless manually taken over by a human. Some of their comments do seem overly affirmative and flowery, like an LLM’s would, but I have only take a cursory glance at the account so far.