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Reddit use to be an organic website to talk about anything. It was useful for finding the consensus that a certain group held.
I think corporations and big money found out how effective it is to convince someone of something if you slowly groom them into an echo chamber.
I was on r/theoryof reddit which kind of talks about reddit as a whole, and they basically were talking about how a large percentage of comments on reddit are bots just generating controversial opinions to drive engagement. I use to think this was exaggerated, but I just stumbled upon a reddit post that where all the comments were just bots downvoting the most logical response. It wasn't political, it was just a deliberate attempt to shut down the conversation, because it wasn't in line with the ideology of way of thinking of the mods of the subreddit.
This goes for all different kinds of thinking. Even in subreddits where I might mainly agree with it.
LLM's are used to keep people glued to reddit. Its just like how facebook got exposed for making controversial things go to the top of news feed, where as if your friend made a random post about how he had a decent day, it would show up later in the newsfeed because your less likely to engage with "ordinary" content.
Social media is deliberately engineered to activate bio-signals to make you more likely to engage in certain kinds of behavior. I know it sounds tin-foil fat, but after watching The Social Dilemma a few years ago, it was clear that this was the intent of the engineers at various big tech companies.
All of the popular subreddits are infested with bots, and the more we engage with them, the more trained they become and effective at creating less obvious-bot responses.
Remember Will Smith Spaghetti AI? It was an early AI generated video that was extremely rudimentary and basic. It was obvious to anyone that it was fake, but now some of the AI videos you see on social media are getting pretty good. Well the same thing is happening with bots that make comments. At first it was a bunch of emojis, then it was super long winded paragraphs, but each version becomes a little more human like. I know some people who actually think Denzel is talking to them in those motivational videos, when its just an AI Denzel.
Shit is getting weird man.
Even though sherdog is full of hardasses, at least I know most of them are real people that are legitimately stupid, and not a bunch of clankers.
I think corporations and big money found out how effective it is to convince someone of something if you slowly groom them into an echo chamber.
I was on r/theoryof reddit which kind of talks about reddit as a whole, and they basically were talking about how a large percentage of comments on reddit are bots just generating controversial opinions to drive engagement. I use to think this was exaggerated, but I just stumbled upon a reddit post that where all the comments were just bots downvoting the most logical response. It wasn't political, it was just a deliberate attempt to shut down the conversation, because it wasn't in line with the ideology of way of thinking of the mods of the subreddit.
This goes for all different kinds of thinking. Even in subreddits where I might mainly agree with it.
LLM's are used to keep people glued to reddit. Its just like how facebook got exposed for making controversial things go to the top of news feed, where as if your friend made a random post about how he had a decent day, it would show up later in the newsfeed because your less likely to engage with "ordinary" content.
Social media is deliberately engineered to activate bio-signals to make you more likely to engage in certain kinds of behavior. I know it sounds tin-foil fat, but after watching The Social Dilemma a few years ago, it was clear that this was the intent of the engineers at various big tech companies.
All of the popular subreddits are infested with bots, and the more we engage with them, the more trained they become and effective at creating less obvious-bot responses.
Remember Will Smith Spaghetti AI? It was an early AI generated video that was extremely rudimentary and basic. It was obvious to anyone that it was fake, but now some of the AI videos you see on social media are getting pretty good. Well the same thing is happening with bots that make comments. At first it was a bunch of emojis, then it was super long winded paragraphs, but each version becomes a little more human like. I know some people who actually think Denzel is talking to them in those motivational videos, when its just an AI Denzel.
Shit is getting weird man.
Even though sherdog is full of hardasses, at least I know most of them are real people that are legitimately stupid, and not a bunch of clankers.
