PSA: Lemmy votes can be manipulated
The best part of the fediverse is that anyone can run their own server. The downside of this is that anyone can easily create hordes of fake accounts, as I will now demonstrate.
Fighting fake accounts is hard and most implementations do not currently have an effective way of filtering out fake accounts. I'm sure that the developers will step in if this becomes a bigger problem. Until then, remember that votes are just a number.
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I wonder if there's a machine learning technique that can be used to detect bot-laden instances.
ChatGPT or something, the problem is how can we train it to detect instances faking its busyness and interactions
Chatgpt is for chatting, you’re talking about regular ol machine learning. I imagine you could use one of OpenAIs other ai models that support data insights rather than simple text generation