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taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

If they were personalized wouldn’t that mean they shouldn’t really receive that many upvotes other than maybe from the person they were personalized for?

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FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Their success metric was to get the OP to award them a ‘Delta’, which is to say that the OP admits that the research bot comment changed their view. They were not trying to farm upvotes, just to get the OP to say that the research bot was effective.

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the_strange@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I would assume that people in a similar demographics are interested in similar topics. Adjusting the answer to a person within a demographic would therefore adjust it to all people within that demographic and interested in that specific topic.

Or maybe it’s just the nature of the answer being more personal that makes it more appealing to people in general, no matter their background.

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