Interesting. I’d like to know more about this if you can provide any further info (ex. what community or instance was the post on, how recently was the bot comment).

I’ve definitely seen a number of sus accounts but they’re usually few and far between, and oftentimes get addressed immediately. There is a problem with how bad actors can join so many different instances or create instances of their own to cause problems.

EDIT: I think I’ve found it. Doesn’t seem to be a full on bot account but the comment is AI slop that a human probably chose to comment for whatever reason

At least on Lemmy people are real

We may be generally in the clear right now, but don’t assume that any particular forum or social medium is immune to being hijacked by astroturfing or botting

Devil’s advocate: maybe the original Reddit post was somebody asking about how to modify the USB ports in their motherboard and a concerned commenter replied something to the effect of “If you’re not careful messing with live electricity, you may kill yourself!”

I’ve seen this screenshot or similar ones before and people hadn’t been able to replicate the search results to find the sourced link.

Stone Temple Pilots’ Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop came out in 1996

Gross

I have, but we haven’t been able to find any particular issues with me that would be affecting that. Some of the possible causes seem to be environmental, like capitalism, problematic majority demographics, certain other people being jerks, and just bad luck.

I didn’t mean in the sense of having their approval for your own peace of mind. I meant them consenting to work with you in order for you to achieve an objective.

I mean a lot of my problems can be linked to paternal neglect and derision and Pedro is right there so…

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Fool. In time, I shall shed this mortal coil and be absorbed and manifest into more mushrooms than you can imagine.

What a hero

Yes, the template is Al generated. No, i didn’t find any better one. No, i didn’t search for long because i’m lazy. Please just accept my gratitude.

Took me like 15 seconds

https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/415485805/Carrying-society

“You’re certainly qualified for this job and we’d love to have you. Welcome aboard!”

Some time later:

“Sorry, we can’t afford to pay our employees to continue doing their jobs so we’re going to have to let you go”

This has happened twice to me within the past year.

I only have one soul, so if I’ve already generated one image then there’s no harm for me if I generate another

It seems like that feature is just a sort of mad-libs style of generating strings of text and it mostly appeals to the random=funny crowd. Seems like it can occasionally come up with something coherent or clever but I’m not going to throw the money at it to determine a success rate. It reminds me of Cyanide & Happiness’s random comic generator. Relatively harmless compared to other AI stuff so long as people keep the slop to themselves. I don’t like how they use “AI” as a buzzword for marketing that technology.

What part of this meme comes across as AI to you? The cartoon pirate is a little sus to me but not glaringly so. The joke itself seems plausibly human in design, and the formatting also would be human-made (ex. underlining the C’s and the Q). The lefthand image is an actual painting by Bonaventura Peeters.

Instructions unclear: currently in a superposition of both alive and dead while trapped within a box

It was actually Hamlet (source: I was there)

I was asking since I’ve seen more egregious cases of people rewriting what they’ve said. Your change is relatively mild and you were open about it, so I wasn’t sweating it for this case.

Is there a way to see an archive of posts/comments before each edit?