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Just a few years ago, you would never see such a disparity in votes vs comments. But these days, this is pretty much the norm. I've seen posts with 10K+ upvotes and no more than 80 comments.

I'd say in about 2 years, the entire place is going to be bots with AI generated content that try to mimic "real users" using their new Dynamic Product Ads tool. Not sure how that's legal as I thought ads needed to be marked or differentiated from regular content, but here we are.

The future looks bleak and AI even bleaker. Because it's going to be used against us to make the rich richer and not to make our lives better.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I’d say in about 2 years, the entire place is going to be bots with AI generated content that try to mimic “real users” using their new Dynamic Product Ads tool

Yeah, it's just partially like that now lol. A few weeks ago there was a side-by-side reddit screenshot post on Lemmy. It showed the exact same reddit post, with the exact same tens of comments (all word for word, some in response to each other iirc), from different accounts less than a year apart. 100% fabrication. I'd never seen such extensive bot-masquerading as people behaviour; it was a realization moment for me

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think X led the way in robotic hellscape innovation that's now being adopted by Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Dead Internet theory in full effect.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

The Future is a Dead Mall

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Why am I not surprised! Musk is absolute cancer.