spez ruined reddit for everyone
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Reddit was the good place after the fall of Digg 2.0. Now Reddit has become the bad place.
oh no
Anyway.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
It were already infested with Capitalist slop, marketing and propaganda. It was an market religious, propagandized garbagedump for a long long time before AI.. The sooner that Capitalist brain-rot disappears the better.
'AI slop' is just an extension of normal 'Capitalist slop' - garbage that have zero purpose outside a market battlefield..
I went on reddit yesterday just for a minute. Saw a post about some guy asking what he could do with a small hallway like space in his house (imagine a small walk in closet without the door). Almost every response I opened up was an AI generated image. That thread alone probably wasted a small swimming pool of water just cause some people couldn't be arsed to copy and paste a server rack.
Reddit was ruined long ago, this just accelerates the decline.
Nope, can't ruin it for me because I have left this cursed place.
I regret wasting all those years trying to fight back all the bots I flagged on that hot garbage platform.
But I'm grateful that I gained skills on how to identify an LLM bot from a mile away.
Now that they're starting to creep in Lemmy, I'm prepared.
You’re absolutely right
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.
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
5 years? I see the same reposted on a daily basis. One guy was reposting his own rainwater drain video, different angle every week.
Reddit already ruined Reddit. The AI slop is just the broken glass in the turd.
Reddit was one of the most human places on the Internet, until King Steven the Turd decided that it's human interactions were a valuable resource that he could sell.
Now, it's all just bots talking to bots to learn how to sound human.
Maybe in 2012. Once it started to be a right wing information warfare battlefield it got pretty insufferable. Like a lot of the niche content was still there, but the broader culture changed immensely.
The engagement bots constantly peppering my comments with inane remarks to draw a reaction is what drove me to Lemmy. I was there early on, and it was awesome. As its popularity grew, it became less nice, but I still enjoyed going there. In the end, I didn't feel like commenting because I knew that I'd just get hit with stupid responses calculated to draw a response. It just felt harassing.
peppering my comments with inane remarks to draw a reaction
They're here, too.
I occasionally see comments to the effect of, "Oh, really? Can you tell me more about that?" That seem pretty likely to just be bots trying to generate data on certain topics for AI training. Thankfully, most people seem to ignore them.
I occasionally see comments to the effect of, "Oh, really? Can you tell me more about that?"
Fuck. Am I a bot?
Can I ask you a question?
Oh, really? Can you tell me more about that?
I saw a pretty good short sci-fi film a year or so ago about a woman accidentally finding out that she's a bot.
Bro you can't just say that and not mention the name. What was it?
Westworld
Different book, but try We are legion (we are Bob)
That's a good book, not terribly deep but very much fun to read. I'm sure bots thinking they are human has been done several times. First show that comes to mind is Westworld, which is kind of centered around that idea.
Only the more recent TV show. The original westworld film was more like Terminator.
I would pick blade runner as the classic bot / human confusion.
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Now, it’s all just bots talking to bots to learn how to sound human.
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no ; reddit is ruining reddit for everyone.
I beg to differ: spez has ruined reddit for everyone.
Not for himself, as he just joined the billionaire club. I would probably have ruined it for a billion as well, if I'm being completely honest.
It's a problem inherent to centralized online platforms.
That's when things started going off the rails yes. Remember Victoria and the good ol days?
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Reddit was ruined for me a couple of years ago and AI wasn't involved. I no longer interact there but I do still read Reddit occasionally. Personally I find it difficult to wade through hundreds of one-liners without forgetting what the post was about.
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Everyone? Lol. Was this written by an idiot that still uses Reddit as their main outlet?
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