this post was submitted on 28 May 2024
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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] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You and I had the same experience and the way you describe Digg’s life is nothing short of poetry.

Also fuck MrBabyMan.

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

One thing I will never be sorry to see go is the age of pathetic power users who steal content from others and repost it ad nauseam for their own social network capital. Because those people are getting out competed by AI, who are stealing stories from those users, as well as stories posted by other AI. And thank you, writing is a small hobby of mine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Everything is such a mess. This site has been pretty lovely, compared to basically any others.

It shows—you certainly have a way with words.