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

libra00@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yep, entirely fair. S’why I left.

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• Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • hazypenguin@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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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• booly@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• JakenVeina@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Por que, no los dos?

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  • libra00@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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