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withersailor ( withersailor@aussie.zone )  to Technology · 3 years ago

reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular

arstechnica.com

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reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular

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withersailor ( withersailor@aussie.zone )  to Technology · 3 years ago
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In its early days, reddit was built on lies. Sure, lots of code, but some lies.
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    deleted by creator

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      wow the LLMs can use emojis now

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      I get your concern! With AI tech getting better, there could be more fake profiles run by chatbots like ChatGPT. But platforms are fighting back with verification processes and content moderation. It’s not all bots out there, so stay skeptical but trust they’re working on it!

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      Yesterday there were some Reddit front page posts about big subs getting astroturfed by bots. Chasing down bots is getting harder and harder thanks to AI.

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      It will, personally I wont be deleting my accounts, they will become automated parrots that drive people to the fediverse with the links. I will fill the centralized networks with derivative AI content.

      I will manually write my insanity here.

      Sorry if I sound like GPT at times, spent a long time as a tech writer so now I apparently write like the damn thing, or it writes like me?

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      mmm… that’s exactly what chatGPT would say…

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