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   Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 19:15:38 JST Børge

   There's a new version of the FOSS forum software #Flarum out, and I was going to toot about how it seems like a great alternative for people who want to start a new community of some sort…

   Then I took a look at their website and noticed a lot of LLM illustrations, and I was like no, wtf!

   So I searched for Flarum AI, to see if anyone was giving them pushback on this…

   And what I found instead was a seemingly official plugin to create fully AI forum users in Flarum!

   What the actual fuck!?

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 04:14:27 JST Børge

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     • Kobiac

     @Kobiac Yeah. It means that on Flarum forums, even more than on the rest of the internet, you can't be sure if people you talk with are actually people, or just waisting your time and generating probable misinformation at you. I don't understand why they would want to make a system for this to plug in to their forum software, and create this distrust.

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     Kobiac (kobiac@dice.camp)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 04:14:28 JST Kobiac

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     @forteller@tutoteket.no@tutoteket.no Such a shame! I guess the plugins are optional, though, but... it communicates a company «stance». I was considering Flarum for a game community. It’s even on YunoHost, which I’m considering for a self-hosting option.