I mean the bots don't help. The sheer number of obviously AI subreddits and response farms is crazy. There's like 6 prominent "Am I the Assholes", a bunch of text message "screenshot" subreddits which have always been easy to fake, and a bunch of "explain the joke" ones too. I stop reading halfway through most text posts and comments because it's obviously AI
makeshiftreaper
joined 2 years ago
Unironically, yes. If the "internet" were to disappear tomorrow civilized society would no longer exist. Too much had been built on an unstable jenga tower of technology. We put a lot of faith in the status quo existing despite the fact that little evidence suggests it will
It's kinda the same thing as "selling feet pics" and "stripping to pay for school". There's a common belief that since men are so desperate for sex that any woman willing to do sex work will make a decent amount of money. That's simply not the case if you actually talk to any kind of sex worker. However, America is so puritanical that most people don't even know a sex worker, let alone have the bravery to ask them about their work
I made a lemmy post about it but I theorize they're crowdsourced AI training. Post something, post a couple of separate AI interpretations of it, then analyze the highest up voted AI and "organic" responses, and feed that back into the model. Rinse/repeat