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

glimse@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They want more users to make accounts. Blocking nsfw content to non-users was a start but now they can make a bigger push.

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  • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nsfw Still works in old.reddit as a non user.

    Or so a friend tells me

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• doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s in their best interest to suppress non-human conversations. What are you talking about?

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is it? Reddit has been full of bots for years.

    And if the r/CMV thing didn’t make it apparently, the recent wave of them weren’t “caught in the act” and only became a “problem” when the researchers announced their shitty experiment.

    If realistic chat bots can fool the masses, why on earth would reddit get rid of them? It helps their metrics. “Look at how active our site is! Buy stock!”

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    • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Meta is paying to make its bots, Reddit gets it for free!

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      • werty@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        A metabot walked into a subreddit…

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    • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      half of thier site are bots, RUSSIA probably makes a majority of those bots, something reddit isnt doing anything about

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      • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You’re not wrong but what does Russia have to do with anything here?

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    • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I know you enjoy hating on Reddit but what you’re saying doesn’t make any sense. Reddit is an advertising business. Bots don’t view advertising but adds infrastructure cost. Additionally, humans are way better at engagement with the platform and people than bots.

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      • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Bot activity brings “engagement” which generated more page views from actual humans. Literally the only downside of this announcement is the optics of having bots in the first place.

        The bots were already indistinguishable from humans on reddit, do you really think that this recent scrutiny is going to lead to fewer bots? Or might it actually lead to better bots?

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      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Additionally additionally, as it says in the article, reddit sells its content to OpenAI, and in order to do that, they need it to be organic. If you feed AI output back info AI, it makes the output worse, not better. So, there’s another financial incentive to ensure that the people talking on reddit are actually human.

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      when the researchers announced their shitty experiment.

      Shitty experiment? On the contrary, it was an amazing experiment.

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  • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No it isn’t and they have openly talked about doing this practice back in the early days of reddit to make the site appear more active than it really was. Nothing has changed.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Only their own bots are allowed.

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  • Merva@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Where on Earth have you gotten that bizarre idea? It is in their interest to promote engagement, human or not, by any means necessary.

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