An investigation into the AI bots that appeared on Reddit after they partnered with OpenAI.
Key points:
- The bots post a lot of links to products and services which appear to be adverts but are not marked as such.
- Many of these links are for Sam Altman’s World ID.
- Reddit added terms on AI advertising to their business page around the time the bots appeared.
- The bots also make up stories about dead mothers, depression, drug addiction, eating disorders, medical conditions and mental health issues.
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LOL. The bots were on reddit a LONG time before they partnered with openAI.
More sophisticated LLM bots started joining the already extant repost bots, astroturfing gif bots, and T-shirt scam bots in early 2023. As usual, mainstream media is literally years behind.
At this point, I’m pretty sure the majority of content on Reddit is posted by bots. It’s at the point of looking more like instagram these days.
It used an em dash. Rookie mistake!
I used to use it once in a while too haha. Its so strange how things worked out 2020+.
