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Reddit is the ideal place for bots, because there is a critical mass of anonymous posters who will bicker about topics they know nothing about–not to mention nu
by evantbyrne 2y ago
Reddit is the ideal place for bots, because there is a critical mass of anonymous posters who will bicker about topics they know nothing about–not to mention numerous other shameless cultural practices. It is may already be impossible for regular users to tell themselves apart from LLMs when engaged in typical Reddit discourse.
- tsunamifury 2y agoThe problem is that infinite bicker produces low quality long term training data, terrible ad targeting data, and even worse conversions. So unless they exclusively plan to sell rage engagement to film Studios and political campaigns their market is going to be microscopic and terribly performing.
- evantbyrne 2y agoBusinesses are going to need to be extra cautious about social media advertising spend in the era of LLMs. Personally, I think social networks are doomed, unless they can figure out how to lock things down. Will be difficult to do on a website known for anonymous posting.
- tsunamifury 2y agoYea the meta empire is better positioned to build real identity legislation and benefit from it. I think Reddit could be enjoying a short term boost but once Google drops them it’s a bust.