There are absolutely bot vote manipulation campaigns happened.
See this: old.reddit.com/…/why_are_we_all_just_accepting_me…
Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoNo, it’s value is that users have up voted and down voted good and bad data. This gives the AI training data that has been crowd sourced by humans. Bots manipulating votes would destroy the value of Reddit.
M1ch431@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Of course there are. That doesn’t mean the majority of the site is compromised.
M1ch431@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Citation needed.
plyth@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
They could sell the cleaned votes to AI companies and keep the dirty data public for the scrapers.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Okay, but it is those niche subs that are the most valuable.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
havnt they already destroyed the value of reddit, the bots already have massive hordes of downvoting/voting going on.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Bots have been controlling votes on Reddit for years. It costs about $50 to get to the front page of Reddit.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Which is also generally very detectable (if you actually care) and is generally used to push (monetized) social media and not the answer to “what is the difference between normal and merino wool?” and so forth.
The vast majority of the “user” interaction and memes is not the product (at play. it IS useful for societal manipulation but there are better platforms for that). It is all those useful questions and answers that people get pissy about folk deleting the answers to.
Because people, generally, weren’t searching for
team edward or jacob redditbut insteadthe fuck is a renesme redditorLED versus fluourescent bulbs redditand so forth. And the community labeling of the latter is generally REALLY good.parody@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Interesting analysis thanks