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If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 9 months ago (2 children)

As someone who still semi-frequents reddit, it's mostly bots, more and more of which are clearly using some form of ChatGPT or another LLM. It's actually kinda absurd, I've seen many a comment chains where it's just different bots replying to each other, both pretending to be real people.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If bots actually do start frequenting Reddit, and they get hard to detect, the AI content generation will start poisoning itself. Isn't that cool?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

For me, the cool part is that the vast majority of people can't tell anything has changed.

Also, we can be rather poisonous ourselves.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I must say I've seen in increase of conversations on Reddit that seem like everyone involved has severe lead poisoning.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Nah, it's always been like that.