• dumples@kbin.social
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    3 months ago

    The only reason reddit was valuable was because it was from real people who weren’t paid off. Well that’s ruined now.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, I’ve noticed that a bit lately anyways. Maybe I’m looking up stuff that has less of a community on Reddit, and thus has less discussion, but I have absolutely noticed some comments have a single product name-drop with little clarity for why they liked the product. It starts to feel like they’re just ads (generated or otherwise) meant to trick you into thinking Reddit users are liking the product.

      AI is going to just make it worse, and cause Reddit to not be a good goto for actual reviews and discussion on pros/cons.

      • Jordan117@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        There’s an excellent chance that even some of the “authentic” discussions you see are word-for-word reposts of old posts and comments, created by bots to build up karma in order to be sold to spammers and influence peddlers down the line.