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Theres plenty of incentive for people to shoot the breeze and shout into the void on comment sections. Typing to an LLM just isnt the same, especially with the
by brucethemoose2 4y ago
Theres plenty of incentive for people to shoot the breeze and shout into the void on comment sections. Typing to an LLM just isnt the same, especially with the amnesiac ones we have now.
That being said, I don't agree about Reddit comment quality... its just generally not horrible, with the better part of it being old or in niche subs on niche topics (like fandoms or memes) that the LLM trainers are avoiding anyway.
- klabb3 4y ago> Theres plenty of incentive for people to […] shout into the void on comment sections. Typing to an LLM just isnt the same[…] I am concerned with the opposite, that LLMs will shout into our comment sections. For instance, building a convincing sentiment manipulating bit network will be dirt cheap and easy. Even here on HN there’s a financial incentive to flood the place with bots to promote tech products. > I don't agree about Reddit comment quality... its just generally not horrible That’s fine, but the important thing is that most comments are written by real people who wasted time to write it. Not just that, but language is used as a marker. You can tell when someone talks about a subject they know a lot about. This ability to judge for yourself, based on the content alone, will be eroded. Anything can sound convincing, even to the trained ear. This makes content-oriented communities like Reddit and HN particularly vulnerable.
- brucethemoose2 4y agoOh yeah that is a definite issue. Maybe mods/LLM bots in some niche subs can save them with very strict on topic requirements, which would reduce the incentive for most of spam, but the more general parts of reddit (and HN) are in trouble.