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  • Master@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldThanks Spez!
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    11 months ago

    I imagine as it grows it will become more useful. It’s not particularly my viewpoint that lemdro.id isnt useful. The opposite is true. I was just pointing out in my original post that, sadly, all I’ve gotten sofar were unhelpful bot responses. I wasnt particularly trying to push an agenda or anything. I like lemdro.id and am registered there and will help where I can to make it better… but also bots… :D


  • Master@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldThanks Spez!
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    11 months ago

    This is one of the bots that responded. I did a “bad bot” type reply to it and it delete or someone delete it’s post. https://lemdro.id/u/GPT4

    I dont particularly have an issue with bots and this one is clearly marked a bot. The main issue is that it just searched and summarized the top 10 reddit answers to the same question which I had already done… Im sure the bot didnt break any of the bot rules. It’s just that bots dont generally give good answers to questions without refinement to the parameters. If I was directly using ChatGPT I’m sure I could get it to give an acceptable answer to most questions. But a random bot giving a general answer is not much use. (To me at least).

    Sometimes people just dont have answers to the questions… Bots always do sadly even when they are not correct.





  • Master@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldThis
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    1 year ago

    That is literally what happens every year with r/place. Hundreds of thousands of bots placing pixels based on pregenerated images. Then the bots fight each other. Then reddit uses their own bots to censor things or mod tools to drop a bunch of random pixels over the top of images to wipe them out.




  • The only problem with that, and its not really a big problem yet, is that reddit is using your content to generate money for themselves in increasingly unethical methods. Previously you could see and interact with content without logging in from many different platforms. Now, on mobile, you can only interact with it on one platform (their own app that forces ads etc) and increasingly you need to be logged in to access it (so they can better track your movement and feed user specific ads). It is not unlikely that in the future they rework reddit premium to prevent people from seeing free content.

    So the end result of your content could be that reddit uses it to take advantage of someone in their time of need by forcing them to pay for a month of reddit premium just to get help with their issues which you provided a solution to for free.

    Now, that’s a stretch but only because I dont see how reddit can force a premium subscription on people without everyone rioting and burning the place down. But they seem to have killed all 3rd party apps which was also something I didnt think could possibly happen without bloodshed and it did easily.

    With all that said, I didnt delete my comment history either because I personally feel that it’s better to help people than to hurt reddit. But at the current direction and speed reddit is heading I think it’s not out of the question that I would in the future change my mind and delete everything.