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How Will Lemmy and Social Media Handle Advanced Bots in the Future? (discuss.online)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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