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In case you're wondering, the graph looks like this. There have currently been 16k new signatures today. The required pace to make it would be 10k a day. Yesterday the count increased by about 30k signatures.
TL;DR Keep spreading this to people you know, and keep signing. It's working.
You guys need to make your bots a little less obvious
I swear to God, some people these days will cry bot if someone so much as blinks unexpectedly. Chill.
I get accused of being a bot all the time now because I still enjoy writing long-form posts and, y'know, contributing what I can to the state of human knowledge, or what remains of it anyway. I can't blame people for being defensive about it. It's the AIs themselves I'm offended by, they're the ones doing wrong. We're all just trying to cope with the avalanche of unverified garbage they're putting out. It's digital pollution.
Yeah. I hear you there. Problem I usually have is that the odds of an accusation tend to scale less with posting style in my experience and more with level of disagreement, or whether or not the poster has personally witnessed something. Basically, "I didn't see this with my own two eyes/dislike you, so this is obviously bot behavior." It's a conspiracy theorist-like attitude, and it's predated LLMs entirely.
Nonetheless, I'm not happy that an entire new form of bot scrutiny has been introduced, and I absolutely cannot wait for GenAI/LLM hype to die the fuck down.
Nobody said anything about AI or LLMs.
Flooding online petitions with bots isn't even a this-century thing let alone anything to do with AI hype.
This isn't change.org or a twitter poll.
It's an official EU citizens initiative, hosted on the EU web portal. The one maintained by the EU for the very purpose of digitally facilitating any and all citizens initiatives.
From cecilkorik, who I was replying to. That kind of bot accusation scarcely ever occurred before LLMs entered the picture. You posted too hastily here and missed a huge chunk of context.