volubleAug 18, 2024

Is it just me, or does it feel like Lemmy is being hit with a wave of political spam?

https://lemmy.world/post/18781176

Is it just me, or does it feel like Lemmy is being hit with a wave of political spam? - Lemmy.World

I notice a large number of ragebait-y political communities being spun up by new users with thousands of posts & ai profile header photos. I notice comment sections are more acrimonious, and foreign disinfo talking points are circulating a lot more prolifically than before the US election started ramping up. Anyone else notice this? Any idea on how to combat it on this platform? Are there any communities built around creating block lists of obvious troll/ai/disinfo accounts & communities?

Show threadExcursionInversion

Nope, keyword filters help

Aug 18, 2024 at 3:29pmWeb
Show threaddjsaskdjaAug 18, 2024
Should add Harris, Walz, and Vance.
Show threadExcursionInversionAug 18, 2024
Show threaddandelionAug 18, 2024
is that a lemmy feature?
Show threadExcursionInversionAug 18, 2024
Don’t think so yet? Using a 3rd party app for android, sync
Show threadfuryAug 18, 2024
I wish they worked on pictures too :( half my feed is still full of stuff I’ve blocked just because they didn’t use the word in the title
Show threadFeathercrownAug 18, 2024
OCR is easy enough now that I’m a little sirprised text isn’t auto-parsed from uploaded images
Show threadtalAug 18, 2024

Hmm.

Having a bot that auto-OCRs images and comments with the text in the image – and, even better, a AI-generated description, maybe – would probably help vision-impaired users.

I mean, it’d be technically more-efficient to have a bot run it as a one-off than to have every impaired-vision user run it.

I was actually just looking at a software package that did something like that (for the purpose of removing text from AI-generated images…it’d run text recognition on the image, identify text areas, then automatically inpaint the identified region, repeating until the text was gone).

github.com/iuliaturc/detextify

So I know that the underlying software is out there.

GitHub - iuliaturc/detextify: Remove text from AI-generated images

Remove text from AI-generated images. Contribute to iuliaturc/detextify development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Show threadarinAug 18, 2024
Add harris
Show threadAlienmonkeyAug 18, 2024
I have Elon and Musk entered individually to catch all that shit too.
Show threadExcursionInversionAug 18, 2024
derp should have added those two a while ago