While browsing the fediverse I come across more and more accounts that seem … a bit off, a little uncanny. The stuff they post seems random, their comments slightly weird. What’s going on, is the fediverse being overrun by bots? Or am I as a fanatic anti-AI person just losing my mind and seeing the enemy everywhere?
I hate the fact that I now question every interaction that seems a bit off - it seems such a stupid waste of my time and I’m afraid I might just end up blocking real people who happen to express themselves in a strange way - as a neurodivergent person I know how bad I would feel about being ostracized as ‘too strange to be real’. How would you handle this?
The only one I am not entirely sure about is qrstuv (or something like that) and their community Funhole. I just assume they are the same kind of weird, eccentric internet person I’ve known about since getting online but there are some things that make me wonder if they are actually a bot sometimes.
Their usernsme is just kinda random. there is another user with another 5 letter username that’s just random letters that responds to all their posts with the same comment. Their art is pretty unique and strange, but that could also be AI generated.
I’m pretty sure they are an actual weirdo, but simultaneously if someone discovered they weren’t I wouldn’t be surprised. I do like their art, though. It’s pretty rad.
No offense to qrstuv if you are flesh and blood instead of 1s and 0s. :P
Lol funhole is one of the few places I feel sure there aren’t bots, just weirdos