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.
Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots
makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 3 days agoI 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
libra00@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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.
libra00@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yep, entirely fair. S’why I left.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
the number of the explain the joke threads on the all page is ridiculous.
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