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Has anyone else noticed a large influx of Trolls lately? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This isn't about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That's pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I'm also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion.

I'm not even talking about necessarily in this community directly, however in a lot of other spaces I've noticed a lot of accounts using divisive language and terms like "The ineffectual left" "single issue voters" "ignorant right wing morons". Lots of straw man arguments, lots of willful ignorance.

I'm not a centrist, I'm very very very far left however I know well enough not to patently dismiss the talking points of others, outside of course calls to genocide. I know what dog whistles sound like, and I'm hearing a lot of them lately.

Most egregiously I'm seeing very long form post replies that read very much like what is generated from LLMs.

So I guess my question is, how're we all fairing with what might be the largest Turing test ever?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The kind of trolls I'm talking about start a conversation with you, ask you leading questions and pull into a discussion though. Then BAM dog whistles. It's insidious.

I'm well aware of the old adage "Don't feed the Trolls"

My larger question is how do we deal with the leverage an LLM gives trolls?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The kind of trolls I’m talking about start a conversation with you, ask you leading questions and pull into a discussion though. Then BAM dog whistles. It’s insidious.

If that happens stop talking to them.

how do we deal with the leverage an LLM gives trolls?

Once again, stop talking to them. Let the mods do their job.

EDIT or you can block them. You have the tools to solve the problem. Use them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're right, thanks for helping me reframe this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I just add a user note to trolls and then anytime I see them I make sure to let people know not to interact with them

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Same. If we want Lemmy and the Fediverse to succeed we all need to do our part to stop propaganda. They spend money to spread misinformation, but there's no budget for fighting it... just us.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Are notes specific to an app or frontend?