Unauthorized AI bots
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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100%. Reddit loves bots that they control, like the ones that go back and constantly re-post years old top rated, traffic driving content, complete with a replica of the entire comment section posted by hundreds/thousands of bots, because they can use it to do their bidding in pushing agendas and/or driving traffic/engagement.
Am I overreacting aita and all of those question answer subs are all bots.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Reddit worked with OpenAI and Google and other AI companies to help them get the data they want by letting them manipulate subs.
Reddit: User content belongs to us. You can't scrape, collect, use, or have bots interact with it... unless you pay us.
Also reddalso Reddit: since all users have left, most of our traffic now consists of posts from AI bots that we're really really blocking!!
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I don't believe that for 1 millisecond.
Spez won't be able to stop himself from enshitifying reddit in any way he can to appease those VC pump&dump scammers he's spent the last decade ruining reddit for.
Fuck reddit, It's a shithole.
Sometimes I have to return for various reasons. God. Some of them have absolutely bled over to the fediverse, but holy HELL are the people and the culture there messed up. I don't know if it's getting worse or I'm healing.
Personally I feel like I am healing. I haven't signed into reddit since they bent the knee to musk. I have noticed that I have become less toxic. I still go off half cocked like an idiot but I have been more tactful about it. I hope to keep working on it because I honestly never noticed until I had been away from reddit for a few weeks.
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What's the difference between Reddit and Lemmy culturally? I thought that the people who moved over here held opinions fairly typical of Reddit.
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No they won't lol
If they didn't do it already, it's not gonna happen now. This is lip service to the shareholders
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I always get 'Blocked by Network security' for trying to access Reddit from a VPN
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Yeah it's definitely the bots and not the fashy admins that drove me away from reddit.
I mean the bots don't help. The sheer number of obviously AI subreddits and response farms is crazy. There's like 6 prominent "Am I the Assholes", a bunch of text message "screenshot" subreddits which have always been easy to fake, and a bunch of "explain the joke" ones too. I stop reading halfway through most text posts and comments because it's obviously AI
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Like "closing the gate after the sheep already escaped", but in reverse?
like: Closed the gate after the wolf got in?
Closing the gate after the wolves have got in eaten all the sheep, had a nice rest, and then left. And then about 30 years past.
Sure maybe small trees are now growing in the now ungrazed pasture, but I guess late is better than never.
What and destroy 90% of their traffic?!?
“That’s a bold move, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for ’em.”
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No they wont. Just those who haven't paid them first.
*reddit will tag their own chatgpt bots to prevent them from being banned, and then through false positives will ban the last of the real users from the site.
i bet they also ignore half of the propaganda bots to look fair in thier moderations. the only signicant bannings we see is actual users, and the low hanging fruits, of and people posting links to thier businesses.
This has nothing to do with bots. Verification comes with more info provided on your part, which they will sell.
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What, like Xitter did?
what about their own Ai bots lmao?
The bots post better comments than most of their users.
Someone could create a forum for bots to discuss with each other. Call it Redbit. The bot could generate every possible questuon to ask and even steal questions from quora, reddit, Xitter, and every other forum, various AI bots can then reply to those questions with the best replies.
It can help put reddit out of business. Since most people are just looking for answers when they search google and get a reddit hit, most people don't even bother to sign for reddit and etc.
That was just /r/subredditsimulator
we should make an instance that's just bots talking to each other
Today one said they brought shame to their family line by having a giant tattoo on their wrist of an ex (who was actually dead). Boyfriend just now noticed said tattoo after a year. Picture looked like every letter of the tattoo was in a random healing stage and they were standing on a tire with a random toe censored.
It’s bad over there.
step one: ban everyone who writes an emdash
I like em dashes. I learned the alt code for en and em dashes just so I could use them easily on a computer. There is a difference between a hypen and an en dash, and a double-hyphen is but a simulacrum of the em dash!
- Hyphen is just for double-barrelled words
- An en dash is useful – at least sometimes – for inserting side thoughts
- ah boy I sure hope an em dash doesn't interrupt m—
But let's be real, I type kinda formally, like an AI, sooo
I am not convinced. Sending you to the crypto mines where all AI belong. See you in ten thousand years.
Oh no, the mines will be so bad for my authentic supple human skin, and my favourite mammilian activity of breathing air
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Lol, they're the ones using the bots to fake engagement in the first place.
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Oh no! Anyway
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