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Seems plausible that LLMs have made it much easier to fool Reddit's own metrics by generating "original" content and comments.
by causal 2y ago
Seems plausible that LLMs have made it much easier to fool Reddit's own metrics by generating "original" content and comments.
- sebazzz 2y agoBoth Reddit and X have nothing to gain by banning boys because metrics and engagement suffers.
- debacle 2y agoI haven't seen a massive correlation in LLM popularity and reddit bots. A good old markov chain can simulate the average reddit thread, and the botting issue has been prevalent for quite a long time.
- causal 2y agoI just don't know how I'd be sure a comment isn't written by an LLM.
- dartos 2y agoMaybe fun little bike shed: Are LLMs not just fancy Markov chains? They are next token predictors which have some hidden internal state that output probability distributions which lead to further states.
- gield 2y ago>A good old markov chain can simulate the average reddit thread Someone did this on Reddit 9 years ago. It was remarkably good. https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/comments/3g9ioz/ https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/comments/3g9ioz/
- astolarz 2y agoBots used to just take other popular comments and repost them either in whole copies of threads, as in the example here, or taking a top comment in a new thread and reposting it elsewhere in the same thread. Now they're using LLMs to rephrase comments to try to avoid detection (though they often come across sounding a bit off so they're sometimes easy to spot).