• crowsby@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I can’t see how the combination of:

    • Bot detection network shutting down
    • Upvotes being financially incentivized with real money
    • Readily-accessible large language models

    Can lead to anything other than Reddit becoming increasingly flooded with botted content. Like you mentioned, it won’t happen overnight, but it does seem inevitable.

    • Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The decay is already very noticable in some subs. The one I frequented most for example…wow, what a shitshow that turned into. It was once a place where moderators nuked bot accounts and karma farmers within an hour or so, content was interesting / helpful with only a random meme here and there, guides that were actually based on proper sources instead of “dude trust me”, art that was properly credited … of course there were also occasionally some low-grade posts, but those were seldom upvoted. Last time I checked you couldn’t find a single actually worthwile thing buried under the sheer amount of shitposts, Karma Farming reposts, obvious bot accounts and T-shirt scammers, almost all of them upvoted by the thousands. I couldn’t stand to look at it for more than a minute and haven’t opened reddit ever since.

      NGL, it does hurt a bit to see that sub I once loved turn into a dumpster fire, but on the flip side I’m glad that I jumped ship before it happened. I honestly like it better here.