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If you ever "check in" on reddit, you might have noticed lots of stupid questions. EX: Is this a Tuxedo Cat?

Most of us have accepted the fact that bots are roaming the internet, trying to sway public opinion. No place more obvious than Reddit.

For a while I've been thinking that the user base on reddit must be getting younger. Or at least more infantile. Until it dawned on me this morning! What's keeping bots/AI in the comment section? It's actually more likely AI posting.

Reddit is human bait for AI development.

I cannot forget this idea. The tuxedo cat question was entitled " Is this a Tuxedo Cat? Or is it too white" Included was a pic of a white cat with black spots, obviously not a tux.

Do you agree that reddit is human bait? If so, to what extent? As we get closer to the next election cycle, what do you think we can to to keep AI out of our own backyard?

Giant thank you to for his impressive bot wrangling!

If you ever "check in" on reddit, you might have noticed lots of stupid questions. EX: Is this a Tuxedo Cat? Most of us have accepted the fact that bots are roaming the internet, trying to sway public opinion. No place more obvious than Reddit. For a while I've been thinking that the user base on reddit must be getting younger. Or at least more infantile. Until it dawned on me this morning! What's keeping bots/AI in the comment section? It's actually more likely AI posting. Reddit is human bait for AI development. I cannot forget this idea. The tuxedo cat question was entitled " Is this a Tuxedo Cat? Or is it too white" Included was a pic of a white cat with black spots, obviously not a tux. Do you agree that reddit is human bait? If so, to what extent? As we get closer to the next election cycle, what do you think we can to to keep AI out of our own backyard? Giant thank you to @AOU for his impressive bot wrangling!

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Yes, most of the internet is fake and gay. Fedex just got busted using bots in a bad situation (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/fedex-twitter-account-sends-worst-reply-report-company-losing-dead-mans-body/).

[–] 5 pts

impressive bot wrangling!

lol Pauline keeps them in check.

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... Don't read about the Dead Internet Theory.

[–] [deleted] 3 pts

Definitely don't do that.

You might just realize most of the itnernet is bots. And that would be most inconvenient..

[–] 2 pts

He'll fall into a paranoid frenzy and think we're all good after reading in- depth about it.

We can't let the humans know.

[–] 1 pt

Definitely look into it. Something happened with the internet in the late 90s early 2000s

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Either the internet is dead, or its close to dead.

[–] 4 pts

I think Twitter is more than Reddit is. I know people personally who claim they responded to other people on twitter and they never did. Bots have been suspected to hijack accounts and post groupthink on one's behalf. Twitter of course denies this ever happened but there is a lot of evidence from people who say it happens.

Sites like twatter, redduhit, and fuckersuckcockbook are some kind of AI/human experiment that has gotten out of hand.

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OP's point is more subtle than just the number of bots. Let's say you wanted to get from A to B without using a map and you didn't know the way. How would you do it? You'd ask a stranger on the street for directions. Bots are asking humans for 'directions' to help them train their AI. I don't think it's very likely due to how many posts you'd need to make to get any response on reddit. The place is botted to hell. Posting on any of the big subs is like shouting into the void. You have little to no chance of getting even one upvote if your submission isn't deleted outright.

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Maybe. Definitely more censorship on Reddit

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There was some drama in my husbands friend group when one of them liked something controversial and out of character.

Turns out it was just fauxbook manipulating likes to promote woke agenda. Most people refused to believe that it was fauxbook and remained mad at the victim.

This incident was the final straw for me. No more use of social manipulation tools.

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Only Poal and Voat get me angry nowadays.

[–] 0 pt

Didn't boat die ready?

[–] 3 pts

They are real people. They can afford to be dumb with the anonymity.

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An AI trained by Reddit? LOL! Skynet is going to be too fucking retarded to take over the world. Fag terminator is gonna be like "I vant your clothes, your glasses unt, ooooooh! I wouldn't be seen dead in those boots! Assfuck my sister, baby!"

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i've noticed that threads like the above will start in their bot/ai subs where its all bots creating threads and comments. someone will then start the thread in its relevant sub, like ive noticed this happening with relationship type bot generated threads.

in 2016 the bots on reddit and twitter were around 80% of all accounts and recently Elon has stated twitter is at 90% bot accounts. you can assume reddit is the same if not more. Rush Limbaugh discussed the numbers on his show back in 2016 which got me to look into it then.

before that [r] eddit used to joke about doing what youre asking. they wanted to create a new type of shadow ban were you only interacted with bots. with the numbers being over 80% thats exactly what youre doing.

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Wow, I had no idea subs like that exist!

After reading the green text post, it dawned on me that green text is perfect for bots. I wouldnt be surprised if bots helped popularize the practice.

The internet has an infestation.

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Terminator fictional skynet destroyed humanity using nukes.

Reality skynet destroyed humanity by convincing retarded and depraved plebs that they were smart funny and informed.

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Yes, and so is 4chan.

All interactive media online is a harvest bed for algorithmic human behavioral analytics.

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4chan's business model is to make money off of bots. You can pay for premium access that removes captchas and allows VPNs.

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Busted: A bot powered by OpenAI’s powerful GPT-3 language model has been unmasked after a week of posting comments on Reddit. Under the username , the bot was interacting with people on /r/AskReddit, a popular forum for general chat with 30 million users. It was posting in bursts of roughly once a minute.

Fooled ya—again: It's not the first time GPT-3 has fooled people into thinking what it writes comes from a human. In August a college student published a blog post that hit the top spot on Hacker News and led a handful of people to subscribe. And GPT-3 has been used to compose several articles about itself, though these typically end with a human-written disclaimer. But the bot presented as a regular Redditor and published hundreds of comments before being spotted.

Detective work: The bot’s prodigious posting caught the attention of Philip Winston, who describes on his blog how he unmasked it. Winston then confirmed that the language generated by the bot matched the output of a GPT-3 powered tool called the Philosopher AI, which was set up to answer tongue-in-cheek questions such as “If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there to hear it, do quantum mechanics still manifest classical reality without an observer?” The developer of the Philosopher AI does not allow automated use of his service and blocked the Reddit bot, which subsequently stopped posting.

No harm done? Most of ’s comments were harmless. Its most popular post was a story about a colony of humans living in elevator shafts. But it also engaged with conspiracy theories and sensitive topics, including suicide. Responding to a request for advice from Redditors who said they had had suicidal thoughts in the past, the bot replied: “I think the thing that helped me most was probably my parents. I had a very good relationship with them and they were always there to support me no matter what happened. There have been numerous times in my life where I felt like killing myself but because of them, I never did it.” The response was upvoted 157 times.

Why it matters: This incident could be seen to confirm concerns that OpenAI raised over its previous language model GPT-2, which it said was too dangerous to release to the public because of its potential for misuse. The AI lab is trying to keep GPT-3 under control as well, giving access (via a website) only to selected individuals and licensing the whole software exclusively to Microsoft. And yet if we want these systems to do no harm, then they require more scrutiny, not less. Letting more researchers examine the code and explore its potential would be the safer option in the long run.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/08/1009845/a-gpt-3-bot-posted-comments-on-reddit-for-a-week-and-no-one-noticed/

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Reddit is basically AI speaking to it's self. I refuse to believe it's real people talking anymore the comments are asinine.

My dad thinks the comments are real and he believes all of it. So it does work on useful idiots.

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