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Maybe your instance is federating with someone new that does a lot of bot posting? Sometimes all it takes is one person on the instance to join a very active bot community and next thing you know members are seeing a ton of new bot posts.
Editing to add- On Lemmy you can turn off viewing bot accounts completely in your account settings if you don't ever want to see them.
If you're using the Boost app, there is a toggle for it. You can find it by going to your profile and hitting the "Edit" button.
They are meant to be self reporting/labeled by the creator. There is also a setting for that in the account page.
Note that these options will be slightly different to change on the webui but it can be done even if you aren't a Boost user.