Proposing Botwatch: Trust-Based Community Bot Detection
Is this account a bot? This question’s importance is only growing in a world of LLMs and state-backed influence campaigns. Proposed here is Botwatch, a community-based system for personalized bot detection. In Botwatch, users publish records indicating whether they think others are bots and records indicating trust in a user’s scores. By analyzing this network, we can create useful signals to help users distinguish between bots and humans. Such a signal would consider your trust relations and o...
Botwatch
Fight bots by warning others. Support humans with verification. Build communities with trust.
Games Industry Labeller (@ozone.birb.house)
A labeling service for the games industry. Check my posts for instructions. Verified labels are applied manually and may be delayed. Managed by @trezy.codes.
Verified Adult Creator Labeler (@verified.babesky.com)
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Katika Kühnreich (@Katika@chaos.social)
Attached: 1 image #SocialMedia of #realnameregistration , oh sorry, they call it real #humans , that advertises with " #AI " #slop #wsocial is more than problematic And already has #bots crawling it's #network Now they show that they are problematic concerning #aesthetics as well & advertise with tasteless #aislop @bildoperationen@tldr.nettime.org #realnameregistration is highly dangerous & if the company that wants to have your most private data can't save there net from bots they're not very trustworthy, are they? #tech
Commence the Botwatch | Botwatch Blog
Bots were already a pain online when they were little more than if-then scripts. Now a tidal wave of slop is swamping the internet as big tech companies profit. OpenAI and the rest would love for you to believe they care about "alignment" and "values" while their AI models damage our communities, both online and off. It's time to fight back.
Labels are a way to categorize content and users on BlueSky. They are part of the moderation tools but they can be do lots of interesting things like foster community.
minomobi — the site factory
Tag the bot on Bluesky and an agent builds you a website. Yours, named by you, permanent.
@mosermostly.bsky.social had what is likely the correct read: that they will use this to train a bot to seem less botlike
Tits McGee
Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts
Want to know more about the recent bot activity, what we've seen, and what we've done/are doing? Check out our write-up here! ✒️ 🔗 blog.tophhie.cloud/increased-bot-activity-what-w… Special mentions: @revfox84.bsky.social, @michelbestaat.thereforeiam.eu, @bmann.ca, and @baileytownsend.dev.
Increased Bot Activity & What We're Doing About It
blog.tophhie.cloudi wonder how much of this can be prototyped in userland with no new ui eg just a thing that creates “collection” accounts operated by bots. curators can post stuff there by dm’ing the bot. as a reader, you follow the account, so naturally it plays into your Following and For You etc
dan
“semble for bluesky inside bluesky app” is a good way to articulate exactly what i’m missing in the product. custom feeds are like half of that but they’re a readonly interface
