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Openopenopenopen@lemmy.world 2 days agoIt probably WAS only 15% back when they started the study.
The 2020 study published in Computers in Human Behavior analyzed the top 100 subreddits — the most influential communities on the entire platform. Their finding? 15% of these subreddits contained content likely posted by bots or corporate trolls specifically designed to promote companies or organizations.
2020
This is before LLMs (2022 is the Internet LLMpocalypse) so I imagine this number has increased significantly.
Search Engines have been nearly completely obliterated by AI SEO, I find it hard to believe that social media manipulation hasn’t exploded just as much. It’s just more subtle.
its 50% in 2023, and its most likely more now. i remember there was a reddit post a few years ago, saying it was 50% already.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 2 days ago
That’s very different from 15% of all reddit content being that.
Openopenopenopen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That is an excellent catch. I missed it completely.