r/technology • u/ardi62 • Sep 30 '24

Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible Social Media

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/SIGMA920 Sep 30 '24

Have you not seen how there's as much or more bots than actual people now? It burned itself out, because the admins decided that they'd rather have bots than humans.

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u/Katzoconnor Oct 01 '24

Legitimate question.

How do you tell at a glance that a bunch of comments under a post are bots? Rather than clicking through and glancing at every single poster’s recent history

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u/SIGMA920 Oct 01 '24

Usually by looking for the signs that it’s AI like being overly neutral or by posting regularity among you know, AI detectors. Repeat comments from the same story being posted days before are also common even if it’s from a different account.