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Reddit Migration

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most of the time you'll be talking to a bot there without even realizing. they're gonna feed you products and ads interwoven into conversations, and the AI can be controlled so its output reflects corporate interests. advertisers are gonna be able to buy access and run campaigns. based on their input, the AI can generate thousands of comments and posts, all to support your corporate agenda.

for example you can set it to hate a public figure and force negative commentary into conversations all over the site. you can set it to praise and recommend your latest product. like when a pharma company has a new pill out, they'll be able to target self-help subs and flood them with fake anecdotes and user testimony that the new pill solves all your problems and you should check it out.

the only real humans you'll find there are the shills that run the place, and the poor suckers that fall for the scam.

it's gonna be a shithole.

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[–] CarolineJohnson@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Reddit stole this idea from /r/subredditsimulator and /r/subredditsimulatorgpt2...

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Never underestimate the power of negative energy, plenty of people flock to also dump on things they don't like, it's a great way to drive engagement (albeit shitty engagement)

[–] meggied90@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

This isn't going to happen in the future.

It's happening right now.

Bots are already engaging with users and pushing narratives. The percentage of Reddit that is inorganic is probably higher than most people would expect.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Content will be used to train bots, yes, but it probably won't be Reddit doing it, and they likely won't be offering bots as a service.

Instead, they'll sell access to the API to people training LLMs, and sell it again to people who want to use bots on the site. They can split API access into bulk read, and read/write packages so that people can't double-dip. Then they'll let people monetize subreddits, directly incentivising bot access and usage.

[–] Maxstone@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe I guess
But that doesn't seem will be too popular with advertisers considering it can go the other way too

[–] PabloDiscobar@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reminder to y'all that @astroturfing is open for visiting.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

r/subredditsimulator takes over reddit.

[–] techno156@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Have you never been to /r/SubSim2Interactive?

Although you have to wonder how much advertisers would actually pony up if most of the Reddit users weren't actual users at all. They want people to do the clicking, and if the users are all bots, they're likely not going to bother wasting their money at that point.

[–] xptiger@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

~~I suggest to watch "The Social Dilemma" on Netflix, not a paid sponsor ok hahaha.~~

This will become or "just already becomes" a great opportunity for elections, conspiracies, propagandas, prohibitions and defamations ~~and corruption of minds of freely learning real online people~~, a great opportunity with poor, naive, innocent real online people and especially youngsters and upcoming generations just browsing, enjoying and wanting the Internet. ~~So I swear there will be a massive daunting aftereffect on society/people/youngsters soon to be grownups with not-normal mindsets anew after.~~

BTW OPTIONS:

Rebellious: annihilate those servers!!!

Civil: manually delete/edit/request away every info, posts, comments and personals.

Best I believe: be edified and keep learning particularly to media literacy to well and easily discern the color—truth every time reading or obtaining online/outside. Nothing can ever corrupt a rational man that learns and achieves truth.

[–] FriendOfFalcons@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm interested to see how AI training on reddit turns out. Especially the default subs are full of snarky jokes, even on serious topics the majority of comments are "funny" one liners. And those are the ones getting the most upvotes.

Compared to a system like StackOverflow where the upvoted answers are the most helpful and mostly well written and thoughtfully crafted.

[–] dekatron@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I always wonder if Bing AI gets its often argumentative tone from the reddit comments in its training data lol

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