icedrift t1_j1bmot8 wrote on December 23, 2022 at 2:34 AM

Reply to comment by DickieGreenleaf84 in Only seeing AI posts on my feed yet there are tons of other Non-AI posts in the Sub. by Tamagotchi41

How do you know bots are upvoting AI stuff?

Georg_Simmel t1_j1booed wrote on December 23, 2022 at 2:50 AM

Everyone thinks that everything that annoys them on the internet is "bots." Get downvoted? Bots. A post annoys you? Bots. Someone posted a political opinion you don't agree with? Bots.

AI is popular in the media right now and reddit "broke" the algorithm, so people are convinced this is some conspiracy to get us to accept AI.

I don't doubt that bots are used to manipulate content on reddit but if the low-effort crap that's showing up in my feed is their goal, it's not working out well.

icedrift t1_j1bphdl wrote on December 23, 2022 at 2:56 AM

Pretty much where I stand on the matter. Like yeah, bots are everywhere and undeniably are used in an attempt to manipulate public opinion, but Occam's razor comes first. AI terms have been blowing up on google trends these past few months there's no big conspiracy to 1984 your opinion of AI lmao.

DickieGreenleaf84 t1_j1bnv6i wrote on December 23, 2022 at 2:43 AM

I sit on "new" when I'm bored. If you see a post less than a minute old with over a dozen upvotes...its a bot.