All these subs with motivational or "smart" quotes are breeding grounds for bots. They are some of the most dead and degenerate types of subs. Best to avoid them.
came here to say that it's fascinating seeing which subreddits have the worst problem. you hit the nail on the head with the "motivational" bit, I feel like every single post I see from r/productivity and r/getdisciplined is AI garbage.
I’ve noticed this about the motivational subreddits. It seems like some of them started off with good intentions; what typically happens? Do they get hijacked, or do they just become abandoned and the bots take over?
I don't know about all the cases, but it seems they're created to make money (potentially or actually) or to advance a political agenda.
Many subs like europe and interestingasfuck are full of propaganda, and I wouldn't be surprised if they're promoted by bots (there are humans there too) to make them more visible. Intelligence agencies or political parties use platforms like Reddit or Twitter to shape public opinion.
Scammers and marketers also do this, adding hidden advertising to groups for money. There are probably other schemes, too. And, in fact, all sorts of motivational groups attract gullible people who can be manipulated.
im curious what the tell was for you - was it the overuse of - all of the - dashes in an otherwise - coherent post?
to answer your question directly, its because the post is about a topic that real people care about. the responses arent engaging with the author. theyre engaging with the content of the post itself. who wrote the post matters less to the people engaging than attempting to make their voice heard while screaming into the void. it gives them a feeling of importance in an otherwise unimportant existence. 'i have shit to say; i matter because my feelings are real and i want people to know'.
its no less normal than proclaiming 'this must have been written by ai so im not going to engage because i am very smart'. ;)
end of the day, everyone has different stuff that they give a shit about, and most normal people dont give a shit about investigating who authored a post on an anonymous message board website when they choose to reply to a post written on it.
note- im assuming you are asking why anyone would engage. if you meant 'why would anyone use chat gpt to craft a thesis and post it on reddit', theres probably a few reasons, but whatever it is will likely come down to money somehow.
'why would anyone use chat gpt to craft a thesis and post it on reddit',
This is what i meant. I understand why people engaged, I was about to myself until I saw the user in the comments. The comments were the tell, not the post itself. Every comment read like the comment above it had been fed into chat gpt... I agree with the sentiment of the post, thats not what I take issue with. What weirds me out is that there is some person doing this, somewhere along the way. And I just dont understand why.
ah, yeah, i feel that. i went back through some of the comments you were talking about. youre absolutely right. its bizarre honestly. best i can figure in these cases is that its some kind of karma farming thing to establish the account in order to sell it later. at least, that would be a valid (albeit stupid) possibility, given that there is actually a market for this.
i think the biggest thing that weirds me out - is why does gpt always use way too many dashes when spitting out their garbage? nothing inherently wrong with using dashes - of course - but when theres like 3 to 5 of them - per paragraph... no one does that.
One guy on a subreddit tried to sell me his book...his theories were not ground in reality...rather it was based on personal experience, going by the assumption that my experience is the same and should therefore do what he did...
He didn't do it to help me, he just wants to shamelessly self-promote his book...why would I buy a book from someone I don't know and have never heard of before that? This is a great example of how monetization corrupts everything...
I wonder what the backend that runs these bots look like. I've seen them just endlessly reply to each other, so I assume it's just an automated system feeding comments into an LLM and copy-pasting the replies. Very curious about the stack, though.
All these subs with motivational or "smart" quotes are breeding grounds for bots. They are some of the most dead and degenerate types of subs. Best to avoid them.
came here to say that it's fascinating seeing which subreddits have the worst problem. you hit the nail on the head with the "motivational" bit, I feel like every single post I see from r/productivity and r/getdisciplined is AI garbage.
Oh those two subs are fucking graveyards. And people in the comment eat it right up, it’s tragically fascinating
I’ve noticed this about the motivational subreddits. It seems like some of them started off with good intentions; what typically happens? Do they get hijacked, or do they just become abandoned and the bots take over?
I don't know about all the cases, but it seems they're created to make money (potentially or actually) or to advance a political agenda.
Many subs like europe and interestingasfuck are full of propaganda, and I wouldn't be surprised if they're promoted by bots (there are humans there too) to make them more visible. Intelligence agencies or political parties use platforms like Reddit or Twitter to shape public opinion.
Scammers and marketers also do this, adding hidden advertising to groups for money. There are probably other schemes, too. And, in fact, all sorts of motivational groups attract gullible people who can be manipulated.
im curious what the tell was for you - was it the overuse of - all of the - dashes in an otherwise - coherent post?
to answer your question directly, its because the post is about a topic that real people care about. the responses arent engaging with the author. theyre engaging with the content of the post itself. who wrote the post matters less to the people engaging than attempting to make their voice heard while screaming into the void. it gives them a feeling of importance in an otherwise unimportant existence. 'i have shit to say; i matter because my feelings are real and i want people to know'.
its no less normal than proclaiming 'this must have been written by ai so im not going to engage because i am very smart'. ;)
end of the day, everyone has different stuff that they give a shit about, and most normal people dont give a shit about investigating who authored a post on an anonymous message board website when they choose to reply to a post written on it.
note- im assuming you are asking why anyone would engage. if you meant 'why would anyone use chat gpt to craft a thesis and post it on reddit', theres probably a few reasons, but whatever it is will likely come down to money somehow.
This is what i meant. I understand why people engaged, I was about to myself until I saw the user in the comments. The comments were the tell, not the post itself. Every comment read like the comment above it had been fed into chat gpt... I agree with the sentiment of the post, thats not what I take issue with. What weirds me out is that there is some person doing this, somewhere along the way. And I just dont understand why.
ah, yeah, i feel that. i went back through some of the comments you were talking about. youre absolutely right. its bizarre honestly. best i can figure in these cases is that its some kind of karma farming thing to establish the account in order to sell it later. at least, that would be a valid (albeit stupid) possibility, given that there is actually a market for this.
i think the biggest thing that weirds me out - is why does gpt always use way too many dashes when spitting out their garbage? nothing inherently wrong with using dashes - of course - but when theres like 3 to 5 of them - per paragraph... no one does that.
Main purpose of this type of content is to try monetise engagement. It’s everywhere.
One guy on a subreddit tried to sell me his book...his theories were not ground in reality...rather it was based on personal experience, going by the assumption that my experience is the same and should therefore do what he did...
He didn't do it to help me, he just wants to shamelessly self-promote his book...why would I buy a book from someone I don't know and have never heard of before that? This is a great example of how monetization corrupts everything...
I got banned for telling them their thoughts weren't as deep as they thought they were
I wonder what the backend that runs these bots look like. I've seen them just endlessly reply to each other, so I assume it's just an automated system feeding comments into an LLM and copy-pasting the replies. Very curious about the stack, though.
You dumb