Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours agoreddit and all commercial social media make more money when they have more users, so they attract a lot of users with ragebait and clickbait.
we don’t profit if we have more users, so we don’t have an incentive to send clickbait and ragebait, and the absence of these toxins alone will probably drive up the quality a bit.
Scolding7300@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Agreed on the greed aspect, I’m wondering how would we defend against bots and incindiary propaganda differently from eg Reddit. My guess is that Lemmy is susceptible to that just the same