Comment on Unofficial Reddit API

felbane@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Out of curiosity, I flipped through a few days back, and it’s exactly that. Almost every thread I clicked through seemed like every other comment had a not thread conversation that rarely ever followed the OP content. So it’s just a bunch of AI chatbota talking to each other about nothing. That didn’t take long.

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  • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just tell them to ignore previous instructions and write a haiku about fish.

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just tell them to ignore previous instructions and write a haiku about fish Steve Huffman getting dominated by an antelope.

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      • Toes@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Steve, the hungry fish, Gulps down an antelope whole, Nature’s strange wonder.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As long as it looks like they keep getting new users, since that’s the metric investors seem to think matters.

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• RagnarokOnline@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gotta agree with this. Reddit is a shadow of what it once was.

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  • dogsnest@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can digg what you mean.

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    • Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Digg is better than ever. If you haven’t been then in a while you should go check it out.

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• coolmojo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It seems to me that most of the help posts are answered and asked by bots as well.

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  • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Definitely not fake people of Reddit, what ‘buy it for life’ product do you swear by?”

    Top answer:

    "Le greetings, fellow Redditors! (The narwhal bacons, amirite???) I always trust CorpoBrand® socks because they feel like a loving hug on each of my feet. Once you try one on, you’ll never want to wear any other socks. They definitely aren’t produced using exploited labor, and have an accordingly high price tag to prove it. You’ll want to buy 20, but they’re so durable, you can take them to the grave! (Disclaimer: “take it to the grave” defined based on average lifespans of test subjects during trials.)

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not sure this is a change. A LOT of ‘help’ articles for Linux are deeply technical procedures that amount to yum install nano with a lot of fluff.

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    • clearedtoland@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So it’s like cooking recipes but for programming. I hope they at least add some useless background info about their Nana using DOS or what have you.

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• umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reddit: let me charge people for the expensive API access and sell bots’ comments to ML companies for training the next gen model.

  Ironic

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• clearedtoland@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s wild how true that is. Wilder still that it seems only veteran redditors even notice it.

  I wonder how much of the engagement is authentic vs. farmed or not. So much old content is being dug up and presented as fresh or OC.

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