• DarkThoughts@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    At least ChatGPT is a more polite than the toxic, racist & sexist shit that remains on Reddit. Scrolled through /r/all this morning and was appalled by some of the toxic comments in the various submissions. I also noticed some sockpuppets somehow spewing the same bullshit opinion about certain topics, using the literal same type of phrasing too, just in different comment chains and with different accounts.

    Honestly, probably better for my blood pressure to stay away from most of it.

  • May@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Hello i hope you dont mind if i post that post, in case someone does not want to go onto reddit:

    r/Save3rdPartyApps
    u/attackofmilk

    Subreddits are starting to see spam from anti-protest, pro-admin ChatGPT bots
    Thread on /r/Pics discussing bot spam. (Pics is now NSFW, but this thread is only profanity / vulgarity.)
    /r/pics/comments/14puynz/chatgpt_bots_are_spamming_proadmin_astroturf/

    ​

    /r/Programming closed (by admins?) after community recognition of bot spam:

    Ycombinator thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36361247

    Top-voted post from /r/Programming before it closed: https://web.archive.org/web/20230611210834/https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/146wn9s/meta_who_is_astroturfing_rprogramming_and_why/

    ​

    (I would have just crossposted the top thread directly, but this sub forbids crossposting NSFW posts (which is now everything on /r/Pics )

  • fivezero@lemmy.worldOP
    1·
    1 year ago

    Looks like r/programming discovered the astroturfing, so in true Reddit fashion they simply shut down the subreddit entirely to avoid the spread of negative public sentiment. Thanks for galvanizing my resolve to migrate to the fediverse, Spez

      • Hypx@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s truly amazing. Even people who knew that Reddit was destined to fail someday, wouldn’t have predict it happening so fast.

            • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
              1·
              1 year ago

              Sorry to do that, but I believe the world makes a lot more sense when viewed through the lens of punctuated equilibrium. It does not make things better, just makes the chaos more understandable.

              The dot com bubble.

              The housing bubble.

              Basically every economic bubble all the way back to tulip mania.

              The Arab Spring.

              The changes in the USA post 9/11.

              And most disturbing of all, the recent rapid swing of pretty much all environmental indicators into uncharted territory. Our biosphere may be heading into a phase of rapid change.

              • Neato@kbin.social
                1·
                1 year ago

                Nobody wants to change. It’s hard and expensive. Until they have to because conditions have required it. Then they change as fast as possible to a new state that works in the new conditions so they can survive.

    • RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Shut down, you say? Every subreddit should post such truths, you say? Reddit will atomize itself instantly, you say?

      Okay, maybe not but it’s a fun thought, no?

  • Echo71Niner@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Reddit is deploying millions of bots across the site, most of people on that shit site are interacting with bots.

  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    The perfect site for reddit admins would be endless bots posting, commenting and viewing adds while said advertisers are oblivious to the con.

    The first two have been going on at some level for years. The last? Well, it will be interesting to see the official reddit app’s adoption numbers in the coming months.