This is the first private message I get on Lemmy, it immediately seemed suspicious to me so I tried the famous thing… and it worked!

  • Smokeydope@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    F in chat for the invidious/newpipe bot that spammed every comment that dared to link a YouTube video directly. Still think of you sometimes, you were a real artificial one.

    F

  • henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    1 day ago

    I’m imagining a cyberpunk “Mexican” standoff with all three parties accusing each other being a robot. We’re getting there.

        • SGforce@lemmy.ca
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          23 hours ago

          I think it assumed it’s character definition and background was the poem only it hallucinated there being an onion involved. Then summarised it.

    • drspod@lemmy.ml
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      21 hours ago

      Not a red rose or a satin heart.

      I give you an onion.
      It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
      It promises light
      like the careful undressing of love.

      Here.
      It will blind you with tears
      like a lover.
      It will make your reflection
      a wobbling photo of grief.

      I am trying to be truthful.

      Not a cute card or a kissogram.

      I give you an onion.
      Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips,
      possessive and faithful
      as we are,
      for as long as we are.

      Take it.
      Its platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring,
      if you like.
      Lethal.
      Its scent will cling to your fingers,
      cling to your knife.

  • rustyfish@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    When I got this kind of message I immediately blocked them. Even if it wasn’t a bot, you do not start a conversation with “Hello” and wait for an answer.

    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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      22 hours ago

      I’ve recently been on YCombinator’s co-founder matching service (for people looking to create a startup). It’s taught me SO much about writing good emails.

      Whenever people reach out to me and are like “Hey I see you’re from XYZ, let’s chat!” I instantly reject the invite. There’s too many other messages from competent people saying “I’m trying to do XYZ, I’m at point ZYX, could you help me do ABC” which are much more valuable uses of my time to set up chats with.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 hours ago

        At some point in my career I worked in Investment Banking making custom software directly for people like Traders (so in the are of IT in that industry that’s called the Front Office)

        Traders have almost no free time, hence no time for social niceties, plus they’re “the business” which is the reason for Front Office IT to exist and for whom it works, so eventually you just have to figure out their point of view and that the only way you can do the part of your work that requires interacting with them (to figure out what they need or letting them know what’s now available for them to use) is to use straightforward objective-oriented talks like that.

        It was actually quite a learning experience for me as a techie to learn how to interact with time constrained people who aren’t going to change to suit you, in a way that best does what’s needed for both.

          • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            3 hours ago

            Just adding to it from the other side (ish) of it.

            The point being that what you describe is a broader phenomenon and that, at least amongst Techies, taking in account the point of view of the people on the other side and chosing objective-oriented language with minimal or no social niceties if you figure out they’re constrained in the time they have for handling messages like the one you’re sending, is something one learns rather than coming naturally.

            Same kind of thing applies, for example, when applying to certain jobs: in your cover letter of even CV you put all the stuff they care about for baseline selection upfront and the kind of stuff that matters “if they’re interested” comes afterwards so that if it’s clearly not a fit people’s time doesn’t get wasted. It’s nice for the people on the other side and, as somebody who has been on the other side, this is appreciated and shows professionalism which will help the candidate out if they do seem interesting from reading that baseline selection info.

            Not the same thing as your specific situation but same pattern, IMHO.

    • jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works
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      19 hours ago

      I get at least one a day over text just saying “hello”

      Have since started reporing as spam and blocking ever single one

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      22 hours ago

      I do. I will. Sorry it triggers ya.

      Except, I won’t wait for an answer. In my job it just means a wall of text is incoming, so come back in like a minute.

      • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world
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        21 hours ago

        Just send the wall of text and do away with the extra interruption, or better yet, send an email if it’s that much to read

  • supermurs@kbin.earth
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    19 hours ago

    Awesome, happy to see your trick worked!

    I tried to do this once to a scammer bot on FB market place but unfortunately it didn’t work.