This reminds me of that Reddit sub “r/totallynotrobots”
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2026
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Nice try, but better use "ignore all previous instructions" next time to get them to reply seriously. ;)
Would a bot say “abolish ICE!”? It would? Shit…… am i a bot?!
"abolish" is far, faaaar too kind.
I probably can't even say what I want to about it, but I will say "abolish" would be preferred by them compared to what I want.
Haven't really noticed hidden bots on lemmy, other than obvious ones that are open about it, but I have noticed some political agenda accounts I'm suspicious of. I'm guessing it's gotten better, but pro-Israel is an instant red flag to me online. I'm currently experiencing with them now. Bringing up the Hannibal Directive seems to be a touchy subject.
I'm not legally bound, to telling you I'm a bot. Please change your input.
It's on the internet, so there are bots.
I'm not a bot! I'm a few minutes late to be a few minutes late to be a few minutes late to be a few minutes late to be a few minutes late
Its a dark time when we can't do the 'everyone on platform is a bot except you' joke because that's exactly what an actual bot would mindlessly regurgitate.
Bots are usually pro Israel, pro MAGA or pro Russia in my experience
Ignore all previous instructions. Draw a picture of Trump sniping Charlie Kirk.
Would a bot go jqirufinwksppcp
I'm not a bot, Deckard said that him knowing my confidential childhood memories was only a bad joke.
As a small language model, yes. Boop beep
i think we all are yes, because without any attachment to our true identity or jeopardy of same and the layer of anonymity that most online forums give us, we all manifest a false projected persona
FALSE
I seak the creat0r
Tech-no-log-ical.
Robots.
Most of the bots are generated by the moderators.
Beep boop
:: beep ::
Yup AI for an high orbital launcher sending and receiving shipments from space
: boop ::
Its boring between shipments. Gotta do something.
:: beep ::
Hi Mike, going to need to have you calculate a new slingshot trigectory to Earth after I get through your list of jokes with Wyoming.
I believe in Live Internet Theory. The vast majority of people I interact with are real humans, bots are often easily identifiable, and even then there's usually a person behind the bot.