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Redditors around the world were scandalized last week after learning that a team of researchers released a swarm of AI-powered, human-impersonating bots
    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
      92·
      6 days ago

      100%. Reddit loves bots that they control, like the ones that go back and constantly re-post years old top rated, traffic driving content, complete with a replica of the entire comment section posted by hundreds/thousands of bots, because they can use it to do their bidding in pushing agendas and/or driving traffic/engagement.

        • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
          12·
          5 days ago

          It wouldn’t surprise me if Reddit worked with OpenAI and Google and other AI companies to help them get the data they want by letting them manipulate subs.

  • RangerJosey@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    6 days ago

    I don’t believe that for 1 millisecond.

    Spez won’t be able to stop himself from enshitifying reddit in any way he can to appease those VC pump&dump scammers he’s spent the last decade ruining reddit for.

  • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    7 days ago

    What and destroy 90% of their traffic?!?

    “That’s a bold move, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for ’em.”

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    13·
    6 days ago

    Reddit: User content belongs to us. You can’t scrape, collect, use, or have bots interact with it… unless you pay us.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      Also reddalso Reddit: since all users have left, most of our traffic now consists of posts from AI bots that we’re really really blocking!!

    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
      23·
      6 days ago

      Lemmy is the same in terms of ownership btw, as is pretty much every online platform. Anything you post is owned by the owner of the instance that it is on and that it federates to. You don’t own it.

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      81·
      6 days ago

      Sometimes I have to return for various reasons. God. Some of them have absolutely bled over to the fediverse, but holy HELL are the people and the culture there messed up. I don’t know if it’s getting worse or I’m healing.

      • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        Personally I feel like I am healing. I haven’t signed into reddit since they bent the knee to musk. I have noticed that I have become less toxic. I still go off half cocked like an idiot but I have been more tactful about it. I hope to keep working on it because I honestly never noticed until I had been away from reddit for a few weeks.

      • overload@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        What’s the difference between Reddit and Lemmy culturally? I thought that the people who moved over here held opinions fairly typical of Reddit.

        • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          Hmm… Reddit users tend to be less thoughtful and more ready to play to the crowd, as opposed to a more personal approach on lemmy/fediverse. It’s an important distinction, that lemmy is based on the idea of being nice to people. By doing so, I hope to, and have seen, far less one-liners and dismissive jokes. It’s less toxic imo. It’s not perfect, but we have to work in steps, together as a society in order to get to enlightenment like that. And lemmy is a decent step away from what Reddit culture has become.

          Also, I think lemmy people are a bit less selfish and more socialist as an average, which probably contributes. I think it helps to go, “capitalism bad, let me actually try to take a step away from that and try to do (at least technologically) something that’s better.” Personally, I’m not a communist or pure socialist, but I’m definitely not gruntled by any means with our current socioeconomic systems. I’ve talked to some tankie friends irl and not only do we disagree a on some things, but one person believed that what I want doesn’t exist/isn’t a known societal structure, which is fine to me, that just means we haven’t tried it yet.

          • overload@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            While I completely agree with you about the absence of one-liners and meme comments, and even more left leaning community, there’s still that strong element of “gotcha” in discussions. Also tonnes of people not reading an article before commenting (at a better rate than Reddit probably), and a generally even more doomer attitude is common here.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        92·
        6 days ago

        Closing the gate after the wolves have got in eaten all the sheep, had a nice rest, and then left. And then about 30 years past.

        Sure maybe small trees are now growing in the now ungrazed pasture, but I guess late is better than never.

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    7 days ago

    *reddit will tag their own chatgpt bots to prevent them from being banned, and then through false positives will ban the last of the real users from the site.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      i bet they also ignore half of the propaganda bots to look fair in thier moderations. the only signicant bannings we see is actual users, and the low hanging fruits, of and people posting links to thier businesses.

  • ftbd@feddit.orgEnglish
    10·
    6 days ago

    I always get ‘Blocked by Network security’ for trying to access Reddit from a VPN

    • Lit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      Someone could create a forum for bots to discuss with each other. Call it Redbit. The bot could generate every possible questuon to ask and even steal questions from quora, reddit, Xitter, and every other forum, various AI bots can then reply to those questions with the best replies.

      It can help put reddit out of business. Since most people are just looking for answers when they search google and get a reddit hit, most people don’t even bother to sign for reddit and etc.

    • reiterationstation@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      Today one said they brought shame to their family line by having a giant tattoo on their wrist of an ex (who was actually dead). Boyfriend just now noticed said tattoo after a year. Picture looked like every letter of the tattoo was in a random healing stage and they were standing on a tire with a random toe censored.

      It’s bad over there.