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  • pokkst@monero.town
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    1 year ago

    It’s so nice to not see GPT-3 bots replying to literally everything, like they have been for like 2 years now on Reddit.

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      1 year ago

      It felt like every other comment on popular subs (like r/AmITheAsshole) was a bot calling out another bot for having scraped and stolen a comment from someone farther down the comment chain. It makes me think that a significant portion of the traffic being seen still active on Reddit is just bots talking to each other. That, and porn subs, probably.

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      1 year ago

      That was happening? Well it explains a lot of recent reddit then, it really felt people had really weird reading comprehension.

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        It was more prevalent in cryptocurrency subs earlier on I think, but all the accounts shared a similar format for usernames and their replies would always just restate what the comment they’re replying to said, just worded slightly different. Has been going on for a long while before the OpenGPT/ChatGPT stuff blew up near the end of 2022.

      • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.world
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        Yeah the problem with GPT is that is soo convincing that’s not easy to spot, unless you try to force it to say something unethical then it tells it can’t :D