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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The upvotes are bots too though. A decent sized server farm could churn absolute garbage out and game the upvote algorithm and bingo, a front-page full of complete gibberish. Faking YouTube views is harder since YouTube knows how long you've actually watched the video and toss out any errant signals. Upvotes are too basic any bot farm can do it for cheap.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hm, but it sounds to me like this will be a problem for Reddit's plans regardless of AI.