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Marketers and their bots have been using reddit to hype up brands. No wonder Reddit feels like shit these days.

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Didn't it start right as Helen Pao left?

[–] mickus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If AI floods every single comment section, to the point the humaness of social media has been completely removed (which it is reaching that imo), how would it effect our consumption of it?

Looking at instagram, my feed is mostly meaningless garbage (which might be my fault to an extent), but what it has meant I simply don't find any reason to go onto it at all. Would this happen on mass if/when AI is so prevalent (lets say a 9:1 bot commenter to human commenter ratio), that we simply have no interest in it anymore?

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

Either that or folks will happily shovel the slop into their eyeballs and lose all critical thinking ability. It's a toss-up.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 1 points 26 minutes ago

lose all critical thinking ability

Are we already at this point?

[–] Zink@programming.dev 35 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Gross.

I continue to have my own little cognitive dissonance about the Fediverse:

The world needs more FOSS and information needs to flow in a decentralized, democratic kind of way.

Howeverrrrr.... Lemmy is awesome for we few that it clicks with. For the good of the users and especially the volunteer admins who run our instances, I am glad Lemmy is not the big glowing target that reddit is.

Maybe we just hang out and keep the lights on no matter whether it's for occasional lost Linux users or for when mainstream folks decide to ditch oligarch-tech en masse.

[–] Poojabber@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy has the feel to me that reddit did back in the day. I can only imagine as lemmy gets more popular and becomes big enough for big tech to take notice, that it will become consumed by the same garbage reddit has. Lemmy just isnt big enough yet for them to try and consume.

So for now Lemmy is great, but its only a matter of time before the turds find us here too.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

The federation will make lemmy a slippery target because as threads has shown us you can add a compromised server and people will block the instance or if it gets annoying enough admins will defederate it.

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[–] Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 hours ago

This person is late to the game. Reddit has been like this for years.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 5 hours ago

In line of SEO, it makes me think, with how the fediverse works, it could end up being a search engine of its own. Including, I may add, for external contents as tracking bots are made. Quite an interesting realization.

[–] Archon_Warslut@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

reddit banned me, so i upvoted this post

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

In any case, fuck spez.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Reddit right now is banning any criticism of ICE. Reddit covered up for Ghislaine's account (maxwellhill), even though they've attended very public events with her as CEO Ellen Pao revealed, and they have narcissistic megalomaniac psychopath Jibberish (deliberately mistyping) who has trained decades on how to be the best psychopath they can be on social manipulation MMOs also heading and manipulating their "conservative" subreddit, who subscribing to also seems to be a flag within the system to begin showing you subs engineered to manipulate you with their messaging. Oh, and all the other non-conspiracy theory stuff, which there is plenty of.

[–] drath@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago

Plot twist: They did not build shit, the text is generated by AI, and whatever they do is still done by third country workers.

[–] TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 45 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

The linkedin writing format must be banned, exhausting, unreadable and way too self important. It's not a haiku write like a normal person you lunatic. Also these bots are destroying public forums, don't expect any praise from me.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 22 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Lemmy just BLEW AWAY the LinkedIn Writing Style.

A few simple witty posts have utterly upended how we communicate on the internet.

Normal Users:

  • Post replies

  • Up and Downvote

  • Embarassingly minimizing the display when your boss approaches the desk.

And maybe that works for normal online interactions.

Sure, it's fine if you're an entry level Lemmy user

But you'll never change the culture of the internet.

So we came up with

Something that's

Even better than

What we used

To post like

Before

We first started using

This online

digital service

For posting our

Thoughts to

Other

Pe

ople

It's called memes.

[–] NotBadAndYou@ttrpg.network 7 points 12 hours ago

Decent chance that post was written by AI as well. Or it was a marketing copywriter. Either way it wasn't written by a normal human.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 48 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Anyone that works in marketing needs to be flogged in the streets for their crimes.

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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 12 points 11 hours ago

here is to hoping that lemmy never grows

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 79 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

God, I just hate the way these people fucking talk. Everything is a bulleted list and sentence fragments.

[–] kahnclusions@lemmy.ca 53 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

100% written by an LLM. They always use this tone and it’s infuriating.

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 14 points 13 hours ago

People who abuse GenAI no longer can tell when the shit they post look like GenAI. They only talk to AI so it looks normal to them.

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[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 22 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

That's one of the signs of LLM output, take any idea and have it flesh it out into short article. It'll bullet point the crap out of it

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

It comes from marketing copy. Same with the emdash. My company has a style guide for marketing material and it calls out using bulleted lists and em dashes exactly how AI does it.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but even when it's not an LLM, they type like this now

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[–] Snazz@lemmy.world 18 points 13 hours ago

What a self report. This guy is complicit in turning the age of information into the age of propaganda.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 25 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

More than a decade and a half later and pretentious SEO fanatics still fucking make my eyes roll.

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[–] Mniot@programming.dev 40 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

The turbo-hell part is that the spam comments aren't even being written for humans to see. The intention is that ChatGPT picks up the spam and incorporates it into its training.

I worked at a company that sold to doctors and the marketing team was spending most of their effort on this kind of thing. They said that nowadays when doctors want to know "what should I buy to solve X?" or "which is better A or B?" they ask ChatGPT and take its answer as factual. They said that they were very successful in generating blog articles for OpenAI to train on so that our product would be the preferred answer.

[–] jmill@lemmy.zip 22 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

My god. Somehow I hadn't thought of doctors using LLMs to make decisions like that. But of course at least some do.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

You never want to know how the sausage is made.

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[–] AllzeitBereit@feddit.uk 269 points 22 hours ago (30 children)

It'll happen in the Fediverse too.

[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 22 minutes ago

I know fediverse. Weds users and visibility but with all happening I wish it was disable to every crawler/bot

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 6 hours ago

It's one of the reasons I think public voting is a terrible idea. It's a wet dream for hyper-targeted engagement farming. Even to the point it creates a bit of a nightmare scenario for spear phishing and malware injection. The stated "transparency" benefits just seem incredibly trivial compared to the risk, especially when actual malicious actors will simply spam bots and alts, while actual users must navigate this weirdly huge threat surface for basically no good reason.

[–] brendansimms@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago

Not if you use NORD VPN ™, fellow human. NORD VPN ™ guarantees filtering of astroturfing comments made by LLMs! Thats right - NORD VPN ™ does the following:

  • Filters out comments made by LLMs
  • Does not sell your data
  • Filters out comments made by LLMs
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 191 points 22 hours ago (23 children)

People downvote me when I say it. That's all cope. We're not wrong; if and when this goes mainstream, it'll attract the same bad actors just as heavily.

Of course, there are surely already a few here testing the waters.

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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

This doesn't explain why Reddit has decided that I need multiple Hindi sub referrals every day.

Years and years of data regarding me, zero Hindi, zero Indian, zero interest, AND YET here's another suggested Hindi sub! Fantastic work.

But the Jesus ads sealed the deal, adios Redditto

apologies for my off topic ramble, but I feel better.

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[–] plaguesandbacon@lemmy.ca 5 points 12 hours ago

"These days"? Reddit has been hot garbage since before the 3rd party API bullshit

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