With instances falling, are they being attacked with AI slop to overpower the admins/mods and to start class wars on the instances to lower the user experience?

If so, who would benefit from doing so? Who would have the financial strength to be able to do such a thing? How can they be stopped?

  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
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    27 days ago

    What AI slop? There is a surprising lack of spam on Lemmy, if somebody wanted to attack it you’d see a spamwave with hundreds of posts per minute. It happened once when we got spammed by a chinese group but never again.

    • 0101100101@programming.devOPEnglish
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      27 days ago
      • AI slop != spam
      • No one can tell the difference between AI slop and real people.
      • Creating hundreds of AI posts in seconds/minutes is possible, but easily detectable. People have the smarts.
      • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        27 days ago

        We can tell the difference between AI slop and people. That’s why it’s called slop. I’ve seen a number of folks get called out just for using an AI to edit their post (and letting it rewrite it wholesale instead of retaining their own voice).

        This is an Occam’s Razor scenario: the simplest explanation is that people are assholes and a lot of work to moderate, and not every server is going to be able to make it. But that’s why federation is a good thing. It’ll be interesting to see if everyone migrates and remains on the fediverse or if the community shrinks.