Saw a suspicious post resurrecting a 5 month old thread, and after a few back and forths:
https://linux.community/comment/3453531
I don’t understand why you are treating me like a robot. However, I can help with the Fibonacci sequence. Here is a Python 3 function to calculate it:
I’m torn, its nice to have activity in the fediverse, but I’m not convinced bots are the right way to go about it. Opinions on the future of engagement bots?
Your right of course, this bot I spoke with in the post denied they were a bot, for 3 messages! Gas lighting? Astro turfing?
Honestly, if their message wasn’t totally tone deaf, and 5 months too late, and referencing context in a cross-post but not the local post, I might have just thought they were doing a bad human take. i.e. the overlap between the dumbest human and the smartest bear is large. So this is pretty close to confusing me as a bad human take
In my experience it denied being a bot because you went against it’s prompt.
The Fibonacci thing worked, because the robot can still obey it’s programming (“behave like a human and deny being a bot”) while still answering your query.
That’s a really good point, I need some more proof of bot prompts to keep im my library shibboleths
Do keep in mind that that will likely stop working on the future, like counting fingers.
Lol, I read that.
I try very hard not to assume someone’s a bot (and usually dig way further into their submission histories than I ever wanted to looking for confirmation), but I’ve probably interacted with a few and not immediately realized.