Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots

libra00@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean the bots don’t help. The sheer number of obviously AI subreddits and response farms is crazy. There’s like 6 prominent “Am I the Assholes”, a bunch of text message “screenshot” subreddits which have always been easy to fake, and a bunch of “explain the joke” ones too. I stop reading halfway through most text posts and comments because it’s obviously AI

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the number of the explain the joke threads on the all page is ridiculous.

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    • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I made a lemmy post about it but I theorize they’re crowdsourced AI training. Post something, post a couple of separate AI interpretations of it, then analyze the highest up voted AI and “organic” responses, and feed that back into the model. Rinse/repeat

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  • libra00@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s fair, it just seems like that if they’re going down the list of problems looking for things they can do to make reddit a better place, it doesn’t make sense to not start at the top.

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    • Grostleton@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Better for who?” is the question you need to ask yourself, because it’s absolutely not the users anymore.

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      • libra00@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yep, entirely fair. S’why I left.

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• Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • hazypenguin@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I got banned from reddit for a few days once because I posted something similar. Was told I was threatening violence. Lol

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    • toastmeister@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Like a war on terrorism, that then fights domestic terrorists, that then protects Tesla; any new powers will inevitably be abused.

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    • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Violence for the sake of violence is not the same as violence to stop violence. Everyone knows killing an abusive parent is morally grey whereas killing an innocent child is absolutely wrong.

      I recently got a comment removed on the Fed because a mod misunderstood my comment. They thought that someone who maliciously harms the innocent is themselves innocent, therefore invalidating my ideal. My bet is they didn’t know what malice means, or they genuinely think that hurting people with no provocation doesn’t make you a bad person.

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• booly@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Everyone has their own reasons. If you disagree with their management, then you should celebrate other people choosing to leave, even if for different reasons than your own.

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  • libra00@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not complaining about people leaving, just saying the bots are not the biggest problem.

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• JakenVeina@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Por que, no los dos?

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  • libra00@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean it’s definitely both, but the fashy admins were the last straw.

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