• @IcePee@lemmy.beru.co
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    623 days ago

    I wonder if there is any inherent defence against slop on Lemmy. I guess if an instance doesn’t prune it’s user base of bots, shills and other slop merchants, it could be black listed by other admins of other instances.

    • Rimu
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      1223 days ago

      No, but there is on PieFed.social. Mods and admins have functionality to check any post or comment for LLM-generated text. There’s more stuff too.

      Generally I share my findings with Lemmy admins so they can ban the account.

      I think this is a pretty big threat to the fediverse and social media in general and am taking it very seriously. At the moment the amount of slop is pretty low but we need to be ready for the deluge when it comes.

      • pet the cat, walk the dog
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        723 days ago

        check any post or comment for LLM-generated text

        Presumably with about the same tools that gleefully give false positives when checking school assignments.

        • Rimu
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          723 days ago

          This may come as a surprise to you so brace yourself.

          I am not stupid.

          • pet the cat, walk the dog
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            223 days ago

            Well, firstly, I’ve seen the Piefed code.

            Secondly, I doubt it that you have some magical accurate AI-detection tools, and Digg and Reddit don’t.

      • Grail
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        323 days ago

        Your AI detection tools are really helpful, thanks for all your hard work.

    • Grail
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      623 days ago

      My instance bans non-consensual AI content and users. Rimu’s tools have made that a lot easier to do, I get an alert when the system detects a possible AI user.