I stumbled across a Reddit bot posting emotional rants about how bots are ruining Reddit; just to sell AI-generated books through affiliate links. A perfectly dystopian grift for the dead internet.
    • Cyber Yuki@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      25 days ago

      Coming up, in 2030: Anti bot verification by vtuber posting.

      Now this will require a vtuber account.

      Or how about the new captcha trend: Craft a simple barn in Arbonautica™ (game download available in Steam). You have 5 minutes.

    • semEnglish
      1·
      25 days ago

      Can’t just leave us hanging with that ending!

  • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    27 days ago

    This is largely the problem with most social media, and generative AI has made this problem worse just like it has made other pretty terrible facets of human interactions worse.

    Anyone who was paying attention on reddit the last couple years (even pre-pandemic) could see that bots were taking over. The main difference (love mods or hate them) was that mods who’s subreddits didn’t rely on bot content to stay active were moderating the bot problem as best they could.

    Now, most of those mods aren’t mods anymore and the vast majority only really want the engagement anyway so of course they’ll let bots basically take over.

    Reddit the corp never cared about keeping bots off the platform and they care even less now. Bot engagement counts. Bot views of ads count. Removing bots actively hurts their bottom line in the short term so of course they aren’t going to do anything with that.

    The actual human users on Reddit don’t care because they’re there to consume. It doesn’t matter to them if the posts they engage with are made by bots or not.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      26 days ago

      they have been actively culling human users for months now, leaving mostly bots.

  • Deez@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    26 days ago

    This was great, read all of his posts and subscribed. Cheers for sharing!

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
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      24 days ago

      I didn’t like the last one. Sure, corpos would love to create a society akin to the one described but the way the story is framed, it’s as if driving one’s own car is the main tenet of freedom.

      • Deez@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        23 days ago

        I read it more as just one of many subtle erosion of freedoms that could lead to a dystopian society.

        • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
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          22 days ago

          Sure but there is a huge step between not being able to drive the way one wants and where one wants. The cost is also vastly different: human drivers in cars are inherently dangerous and kill 40k people every year in the US. Of course this can be reduced with current technology by incentivizing alternatives to driving.

  • Lembot_0002@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    27 days ago

    At least something is happening there. Look around Lemmy. No bots, no humans, no posts, no life.

  • HalfSalesman@lemm.eeEnglish
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    25 days ago

    This blog isn’t written by a bot right? Its literally a blog called “post human posting”…