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[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Give them some credit. They've finally changed the user name generator to random words instead of Adjective_Noun_####.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Adjective_Noun_#### are default generated by reddit, so they upgraded to their own generator at least it seems.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They have not, left is the more recent post. The right one could be real and is just recreated by these bots.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No, I think those comments are just unwitting humans walking into the simulation.

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[–] [email protected] 217 points 8 months ago (19 children)

My understanding of how this works is that that left one is real accounts making real comments, at least in the majority.

Then when the link gets reposted, either by a bot or naturally, potentially depending on the title, the bots scrape the old comments and post them.

It's content farming. And Reddit is probably okay with this.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 8 months ago (18 children)

Reddit is going to poison LLMs sooner than I thought.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

That's why you ignore all comments from usernames that are like the default ones. Has been that way for a long time, tbh.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is there a Reddit submission with this screenshot? I wanna read the reactions.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

/r/conspiracy of all places, yuck...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, not the best place indeed

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the link! I usually just use the Reddit link, I've had alternative viewers shut down in the past (e.g. Invidious instances for Youtube) and then people can't access the content anymore

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Yes, I was surprised as well

[–] [email protected] 59 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That's been happening for ages. I'm sure if you check the profiles you'll find other posts with all the same bots commenting. A lot of lazier ones wait exactly a year to repost, and it's pretty obvious in subs for something like a live service game where they'll be reposting complaints that are way out of date. One in the Monster Hunter sub reposted a trailer for Iceborne which had been out for 3 years by that point.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

These are probably the bots that will be paid for creating content too. lol

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