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Reddit reached the point where AI generated comments are Top Comments

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We reached the point where AI generated comments are Top Comments on Reddit

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AI comments under an AI generated article being inflated by AI account activity. Who even needs end users anymore? Its a perfectly autonomous system.
- Who even needs end users anymore?
  Advertisers do, and if they ever wise up spez's house of cards will crumble.
  
  Advertisers don't need end users. They just need happy bosses willing to cover their salaries.
  In that sense, the business marketing team and the Reddit "look at our bullshit numbers" team are on the same side of the field.
- Ironically there used to be a subreddit for this.
  It was intentionally meant to be view-only for humans, and the bots within it were named for and trained on other subreddits. So you have AdviceAnimalsBot, LinuxBot, GamingBot, AskRedditBot, GoneWildBot, etc. They would post on a rotation, emulating what users in their respective subreddits posted. They would all comment on each other's posts, emulating their respective subreddit's comments.
  As an experiment it was actually really cool and fun to read through. It was also very clear that these were bots and you could identify which was which, and nothing was pretending to be a human for karma (there were no votes in the subreddit).
  
  You mean r/SubredditSimulator? I miss that place, it was funny as hell.
  
  I loved that one
If lemmy becomes just a bit more popular, the same thing will happen
- Yep, and even worse. Lemmy has absolutely NO controls for quality and minimal moderation tools or capabilities. It's in a much worse position than Reddit.
  If it's not already happening (And I think it is), it will.
  
  What tools are missing to moderate a LLM bot?
  I am a mod, I receive a report from an user, check it and ban. All done with current tools we have.
Be great when the bots permaban other bots.
Dead Internet been here since 2010 at least.
Dead internet might be true
- Something that nobody mentions when they talk about dead internet theory that I think should be talked about is that the worthless engagement trolls that are real people, really do not and should not count as real people. They're never going to give you worthwhile responses, they don't add anything to conversations. Unless they see an opportunity to pick a fight they're probably not even listening to you.
  Therefore they're not really any different than an AI run account that's not going to acknowledge you. And in some ways they are much worse, despite being technically "real people".
That didn't take long.
Is it? Or is one person claiming that?
- Have a look yourself at the comment
  
  I can’t exactly put my finger on it, but every god damn thing ChatGPT spits out has the same cadence or structure. Something about how it lays out points and wraps it up, and its usage of commas, is so noticeable to me.
  
  If you look closely you can tell it was typed with 6-finger hands
Well that seems better worded than much of reddit.
I understand this was posted in the Reddit community, but also...
Who cares? Let that cesspool die.
- Then why are you here?
  
  You're right. The answer: from c/all
- It is funny to watch.
Huh.
So in my 'frequently visited' list, very recently a link to chatGPT has populated.
I've poked at a few of the generative ai things, but only the actual chatgpt once, months ago, and have wondered if there's enough bullshit from reddit to give it enough dings to make the list.
Apparently so
- I see your account is quite recent, so welcome here!
  
  Hi! Made an account over on some other lemmy server, and apparently the guy running it was old, had health problems, and (rightly so) stopped giving two shits about an internet forum.
  Reddit sucks enough I've tried again. It's going okay. I don't give enough of a shit to really figure how the whole lemmy/fediverse works, but at least it aint corpo garbage

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