As technology advances and computers become increasingly capable, the line between human and bot activity on social media platforms like Lemmy is becoming blurred.

What are your thoughts on this matter? How do you think social media platforms, particularly Lemmy, should handle advanced bots in the future?

  • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    You’re missing the big impact here which is that bots can shift public opinion in mass which affects you directly.

    Gone are the days where individuals have their own opinions instead today opinions are just osmosised through social media.

    And if social media is essentially just a message bought by whoever can pay for the biggest bot farm, then anyone who thinks for themselves and wants to push back immediately becomes the enemy of everyone else.

    This is not a future that you want.

    • snooggums@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      I didn’t miss it, since my entire post is about manipulation and the second paragraph is about scale.