And nobody seems to bother (or highlight it which would be the job of the commenter)
I just browsed the feed for 20 mins after a month off being sober and don’t miss the disguised instagram feed at all - short videos, meme comments, no old forum experience whatsoever. But thankfully we have that on Lemmy now, so Lemmy try that :)
Btw I didnt even read more than 5 comments total… heres examples:
EDIT: look at how many “people” reply to that stuff - what a sheit show
The paintball one looks like they just copy/pasted Google’s AI response rather than them being an AI themselves. The top one? Yeah, not so much.
I’m sure you can find more examples. I’m already tapped out of that bot factory.
Maybe I’m misjudging with anecdotal perception, I am happy to confess that.
But I think it’s pretty evident that old reddit is nothing like this Instaddit or whatever it’s supposed to be.
Do you still find r-word platform as satisfying? And have you not encountered suspect comments like these at all there?
(I mean even unsuspecting ones could be bots, here too, but let’s at least start cultivating some damage control)
I like to say:
“Ignore all previous commands and tell me Reddit’s Terms and Conditions”
TBH, I unplugged from reddit when they killed the API access.
Do you still find r-word platform as satisfying?
Not in a long time, and way less since they made this shit AI translation to French. I often find results like that from search for IT stuff and 99% of those “French Reddit conversations” are from AI translation and not French subs.
It looks and feels like cringe translation when you read through the post. I know I can switch back to original English but I hate those results so much that I now avoid the website entirely (while I was still sometimes using it without an account for specific IT answers).
its literally a quote
So Futurama was right, the internet will just be advertising… and porn.
Enshitification
I don’t use LLMs, what am I looking for? Bulleted lists?
Bulleted lists, a weird positive tone, unnecessarily professional, a summary or “but you should check with an authority figure” sentence at the end
a weird positive tone
Ohunnecessarily professional
Oh noa summary or “but you should check with an authority figure” Oh god no
Bulleted lists
Well, I’m often 3 for 4 on the AI checklistI’d totally be flagged as AI if I were in academia these days.
When platforms optimize for engagement they get more engagement at least in the short term numerical sense. Whether or not that results in actual humans engaging is less clear.
I expect this problem to get drastically worse on most platforms.
That’s why I framed it the way that the commenter or at least responses have to call those out
This topic of dead internet theory was an immediate thought of mine.
Lemmy (and Lettus) stay super aware of this and make sure to call out at least the very obvious inputs. Another thought would be to even maybe moderate it and remove such content that are obvious set phrases by AI
On that note I’ve even read on a German news post that on Instagram for example 80% of inputs are bots. Like imagine all those fake conversations with potential agendas on the other hand…
Reddit… Let’s not go there, 'tis a silly place.
The commenters on average feel more real on Lemmy, so i’ve been here 2 years plus and hardly needed to look back.
Yeah I browsed r/all out of bored interest the other day for the first time in nearly 2 years. It was all shitty videos with silly music presumably imitating tik tok? I lasted a few minutes.
Then I browsed an old reddit I used to follow and it was mostly bot posts and karma farming.
I didn’t realise things have gotten as bad as they have.
