For the threads with the older one on the left: https://lemmy.world/post/14859950
(Thank you @Nelots@lemm.ee )
Another settlement needs our help. I’ll mark it on your map.
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This happens everywhere there, and if you complain the just say “you’re a bot!” Or “Reddit is for discussion” … place is a shithole
Been happening a lot longer than you imagine. I stopped using Reddit when the third party apps got shut down. At least the last year of my time there was calling out repost bot accounts. Threads like that on smaller subs with week moderation were really common.
Even on some better moderated subs, they got through.
Reddit died for me a long time ago.
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
What if find absolutely wild is how their stock didn’t just flop. The site has been on a downward spiral since the first redesign, and with the cut to API they’ve basically entered a freefall. I could seen people backing Reddit like 14 years ago, but now? Why?
I suppose if there’s any optimism to have in OP’s post it’s that the bots are at least propagating messaging that’s better for the greater good than the typical shit that’s trying to get us into a full dystopia.
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
Lemmy is not immune to this!! We need to develop FOSS to mitigate/detect that
oh it’s simple, don’t capitalize and it’s immediately harder to do.
I do find it funny that you didn’t capitalize any words in this comment.
i mean listen we’ve got priorities here. We’re capitalizing, not capitalizing.
Image not found. Did Reddit already scrub this from the file host?
Yeah this works
Thank you. That is the day when I’ll finally stop using Reddit. I never have thought that bots write that realistically, so thank you for proving it.
Or worse still, AI (really LLM) farming.
Well they actually don’t write that realistically, these are copy and paste bots that are just trying to farm karma so they can later sell the account (which I’ve heard is a thing apparently?). You can see the left is all original accounts by the uniqueness of their usernames and the copied posts on the right are all reddit generated names.
The left image is the original post, 10 months old, where (at least most) of the users are real people. Left is full of bots copying the post 1:1, comments included.
Just paid a visit. It’s really gotten bad. Horrible titles that make little sense. People falling over each other to make tired quips instead of conversation, and the rest to point out how someone is wrong or one-up the commenter.
I’ve noticed that many Reddit users with the username format
Word_Word_Number(for exampleAbsolute_Bot_1230) are almost guaranteed to either be a bot or extremely inflammatory – it’s like everything they post is meant to generate controversies.I’m glad i end with word*_word_word for my screen name, lol.
It’s Reddit’s automatic username generation, so either yeah, bots, or someone logging in through Google/Facebook and having a username assigned to them.
Well yeah they even have bot in their username.
I don’t get it. They already created a good bot network, but the username part is where they get lazy.
Yeah reddit has a name generator that you can choose from when you create an account and that’s the format it uses. Those names are almost exclusively bots and throwaway/anon accounts
IMO the only way to not be infected by bot content is to not be popular, or small enough to be irrelevant.
I wonder what the fediverse’s answer will be to this problem once it gets popular. Will instances that has a lot of bot content be defederated? some kind of fedipact against bot (unlabled) content?
Popularity is overrated. Irrelevance is freedom.
Exactly!
Yeah, I’ve seen that a bunch of times. Some subredits seem to be a particularly popular places to karma-farm to make convincing sock-puppet accounts to sell. Often someone in the thread points out that it is a bot repost - but the fake post and fake comments are easier to engage with compared to the accusation that someone is a karma-farming bot.
(And of course, these bots-in-training will upvote each other’s comments and posts… so it always looks pretty popular.)
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Reddit Link of the duplicate:
How the fuck is this even possible?
*Does this have to be done by Reddit itself? That’s the only way I can think of, but I really have no idea how it works.
The only possible benefit to this kind of behavior is creating the impression that there’s more traffic on Reddit than there really is, from which only Reddit benefits.
There’s plenty of other reasons to do this. From scammers trying to legitimize accounts to use later to groups trying to sway user opinions on the site. This sort of thing has been going on on plenty of other websites for years. This is the same strategy the porn bots on Tumblr used, and they were so prolific there that they got the Tumblr app removed from Apple’s app store.
Ah yes, its my old friend
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Especially around IPO time
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It wouldnt be that hard to script this if you already had a bunch of accounts and were just copying existing threads. What’s interesting is that there were no other people accidentally joining in at any point. So either this was done by reddit and the timestamps are all ‘fake’, or this was done at a weird time in a niche community with low engagement.
Either way it’s either astroturfing or someone farming up the karma in their bot farm to make them more attractive for sale (to get around comment/karma minimums)
Historically bot posts are from people looking to sell accounts
This doesn’t have to be done by Reddit.
I can create as many accounts as I want, scrape old threads, and then replay the old conversations with my new accounts.
Makes it appear very much like the accounts are real people. Then I can sell them to troll farms.
