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AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone (www.wired.com)
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[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 59 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Let's not blame AI for everything: Reddit had a lot of problems before AI became big. Repost bots are so common that you'll see the same posts over and over again. Some of those twitter screenshots must have been posted hundreds or thousands of times. OnlyFans spam also works without AI. And we have had those bots spamming the same stupid comments before people were even thinking about GPTs.

[–] tynansdtm@lemmy.ml 5 points 15 hours ago

While I agree being shitty is a human problem, shitty people are using AI to be shitty faster.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Repost bots should be built in to Reddit tbh

Just take whatever was the top 5 a year ago and repost it at the same time

Karma guaranteed

[–] nert@lemmy.zip 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

5 years? I see the same reposted on a daily basis. One guy was reposting his own rainwater drain video, different angle every week.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Lately there's been someone chopping chives every day and posting a photo of the result.

There was a bit of a drama when someone noticed that the same photo was reused from a couple of weeks back.

The poster said they didnt have time to do it that day but wanted to keep the streak so they just re-posted an old one hoping no one would notice.

It was just such an amazing and engaging sequence of events and I feel fulfilled having been able to follow this roller coaster of emotion /s.

[–] nert@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

Oh yeah the one that ended up getting corporate sponsors.