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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 3 (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

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[–] Lockely@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

SubredditSimulator was a fun experiment by a random user with increasingly improving realism, training ChatGPT on real comments.

It also showed Reddit Inc you can fake engagement and community interaction with bots, which are now astroturfing the fuck out of the site.

[–] mkwarman@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dang, I never thought about that. It explains a lot though