Comment on New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

• quo@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  [deleted]

  source

  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It seems to correlate with the rise in general awareness of LLMs like ChatGPT. It seems like just the threat/possibility of ChatGPT being used has already distorted discourse online.

    source
  • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I always saw it as someone who only repeats talking points verbatim is essentially a robot. If I can’t tell if you are a human posting, or an automated response is there a meaningful difference?

    source
• MelastSB@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Shit up, bot!

  source

  • PoolloverNathan@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He’d probably need a strong sphincter muscle to manage that.

    source

    • MelastSB@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lol, how did I miss that

      source
• CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, all bad online behavior now is “bots.”

  At least that’s how people in the comments on lemmy and Reddit label them.

  I, and others, have distinguish between shills and bots.

  Usually people use shilling as an alternative to astroturfing by paid human beings, while bots are just AI/programming posting.

  source