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10xDev
68 days ago
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AI slop is killing online communities
So what is the comment frequency of these bots? There must be some signal in the activity even if the comments themselves pass the turing test.
transcriptase
68 days ago
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Even if there was, I doubt Reddit cares enough to go after them when it’s boosting their valuation
Rebelgecko
68 days ago
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If you find one account you can find a few dozen spam accounts by building a graph of what posts they reply to
dns_snek
68 days ago
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Most of them have private profiles these days
Rebelgecko
67 days ago
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There are alternate sources that index reddit comments, but it's really frustrating how easy it would be for Reddit to shut the most prolific bots down if they were so inclined
jayd16
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Does it matter? With enough you can just have them upvote each other.
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