Goodnight Fedi 🩵

@miniBill @ninafelwitch

Here's the spec I proposed: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/117152273187914760

@miniBill it's true ‍️

@ned

@BackFromTheDud someone else sent me that yesterday

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"I tried to unlock it for about 20 years, I tried moving the dials, finding the right combinations, and I failed," he said.

"But with the aid of modern technology we've been able to crack what's like the Da Vinci code, really.

"For me, it's like opening the Ark of the Covenant, and I'm delighted, truly thrilled."
"""

I I literally just taught the dude at the music store how to open one of those locks a week or so ago, because they'd lost the combo.

Girlfriend just showed me an election post with the word "Bluekakke" and I'm peeing myself laughing.

@Lovr aww 🥰 thank you. I do what I can ‍️

@muddle anything that relies on trickery ends up excluding real people, and is inherently brittle—as soon as it becomes commonly-used, the AIs will get patched to catch up (like they did with captchas, trick questions, and known AI jailbreaks).

@Longspeak

@mattblaze yeah, there is a lot of redundant work in securing a fleet of rowboats over one cruise ship, but I'd take the rowboats any day

@mattblaze aww, Matt, present mutuals excluded ️‍🩹

Yeah, though if all of Fedi was, say, mastodon.social, then Fedi would soon just be X with a different logo.

@mattblaze this seems like a case where having fascist tech bros running the world is a disadvantage.

@Longspeak most LLMs obviously haven't read the server rules.

@Retreival9096 yes.

@retrimental I'd rather spend my limited time interacting with real people.

I make an exception for accessibility bots (like altbot), but I block or ban any other bot on sight.

@pronounshe yup. It's become a waste of my time to think up questions for accounts that are most often bots. Basically, if it's a request from an open-reg instance, and there's not enough history for me to make a call, I just ignore it until there are some posts or interactions to go off of, or until I eventually reject it.

@serigala_tropis I've considered it, and I hate that these LLMs are forcing us to react by closing our communities.

@retrimental they've never been illegal, but many servers ban or limit them.

The real problem is that, because of the stigma against LLMs, the vast majority pose a humans now.

As an admin on Fedi, I used to welcome new users, fight Nazis, and suspend trolls.

Now all I do is fight against the endless army of soulless scam machines, forever marching against our server walls in an attempt to destroy the community we've built here. It's exhausting and disheartening. At least the Nazis and Trolls were real people who would get pissed and fuck off eventually, but the LLMs will run as long as someone pays the electric bill for them.

@butchrobot nah, they'd still be applying to ours in droves (which is so fucking exhausting).

Also, bots have the whole rest of the internet—leave Fedi alone

Get AI agents the fuck off Fedi!

They're an existential threat to small instances, and they're a primary contributor to moderator burnout.

#FuckAI #IfYouSeeItReportIt #AI #LLM #NoBots

@grumpydad Grok kept ignoring its guardrails and spouting lefty stuff they tried to beat out of it. Turns out facts don't care about right-wing feelings either