Lemmy seems to have an LLM issue
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or something of the sort. It's the only explanation I've got...
One or two days old accounts with a single post related to something that will generate replies for sure (AMA has a lot of them, like "I'm a Romanian girl that has lived most of my life secluded, ama" or something or the sort...) and both the post and account are deleted 24h later.
Latest suspicious one is about the guy who is short with long feet, second time it's posted, now under new account acting like it's them on the picture, but it has already been posted not too long ago but the original is gone...
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or something of the sort. It's the only explanation I've got...
One or two days old accounts with a single post related to something that will generate replies for sure (AMA has a lot of them, like "I'm a Romanian girl that has lived most of my life secluded, ama" or something or the sort...) and both the post and account are deleted 24h later.
Latest suspicious one is about the guy who is short with long feet, second time it's posted, now under new account acting like it's them on the picture, but it has already been posted not too long ago but the original is gone...
It could just be karma whores expanding to other platforms than reddit. Idk if it's still a thing but there was a time on reddit where people would steal posts, repost old top posts and aquire as much karma as they can on new accounts. Then sell the username to shills so they can push their agenda without looking like an obviously belligerent shill. They might try the same approach on lemmy before realizing karma doesn't mean shit here which is where you see them deleting their accounts.
While possible I do think it's a stretch, I also think it would be completely inefficient to try and train any LLM by feeding it data from lemmy. I wanna say the average number of active users on lemmy at any point is around 40,000. Compared to what google says reddit's avg daily active users which is 52,200,000 users per day, it would seem like a complete waste of resources.
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It could just be karma whores expanding to other platforms than reddit. Idk if it's still a thing but there was a time on reddit where people would steal posts, repost old top posts and aquire as much karma as they can on new accounts. Then sell the username to shills so they can push their agenda without looking like an obviously belligerent shill. They might try the same approach on lemmy before realizing karma doesn't mean shit here which is where you see them deleting their accounts.
While possible I do think it's a stretch, I also think it would be completely inefficient to try and train any LLM by feeding it data from lemmy. I wanna say the average number of active users on lemmy at any point is around 40,000. Compared to what google says reddit's avg daily active users which is 52,200,000 users per day, it would seem like a complete waste of resources.
Would make sense if the accounts weren't deleted along the posts every time (the short guy with big feet being the exception)
Reddit would charge them to train LLMs
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or something of the sort. It's the only explanation I've got...
One or two days old accounts with a single post related to something that will generate replies for sure (AMA has a lot of them, like "I'm a Romanian girl that has lived most of my life secluded, ama" or something or the sort...) and both the post and account are deleted 24h later.
Latest suspicious one is about the guy who is short with long feet, second time it's posted, now under new account acting like it's them on the picture, but it has already been posted not too long ago but the original is gone...
I'm not sure if that's LLMs. I long suspected people to copy popular Reddit posts/stories here to gain attention. I've searched for some and they don't all seem to be dumped here from other places, so it has to be something else. But so far I didn't use any LLM detector service to find out if people made them up on their own or used ChatGPT... We might want to do that to gain some more insight.
But it's very annoying. I've unsubscribed from asklemmy and several other popular communities, because of this.
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or something of the sort. It's the only explanation I've got...
One or two days old accounts with a single post related to something that will generate replies for sure (AMA has a lot of them, like "I'm a Romanian girl that has lived most of my life secluded, ama" or something or the sort...) and both the post and account are deleted 24h later.
Latest suspicious one is about the guy who is short with long feet, second time it's posted, now under new account acting like it's them on the picture, but it has already been posted not too long ago but the original is gone...
It's not an LLM, at least one of the accounts you're referring to. The person you're talking about has a fetish, and they like telling fake stories about unusually-sized non-sexual body parts. They have a few accounts on Reddit on 9gag where they do the same thing. There's a few different versions of their disfigurement that they tell, but they're all fake and by the same guy.
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It's not an LLM, at least one of the accounts you're referring to. The person you're talking about has a fetish, and they like telling fake stories about unusually-sized non-sexual body parts. They have a few accounts on Reddit on 9gag where they do the same thing. There's a few different versions of their disfigurement that they tell, but they're all fake and by the same guy.
Is that the same guy with the big belly? I remember a couple posts about him claiming to have sympathetic weight gain with a pregnant wife. Pretty sure it was just a male pregnancy fetish.
There was also someone who paid women with long feet to step on pizza, but he was very clear about it being a fetish and he wasn't weird about it.
