Not only that, but subreddits like r/AmITheAsshole are full of AI slop. Both in the comments and in the posts. It's a huge karma mining operation for bots.

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genidoi 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That can be solved by filtering out any posts made after November 2022.

	▲	expedition32 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's not a good solution. We don't use medical textbooks from 20 years go. Strangers from the internet, bot or otherwise, are not your mental coach.

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mikeocool 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is sort of funny. Given how common it is to spot bots on Reddit now, it seems like they are likely to completely overwhelm the site and drive away most of actual humans.

At which point the bots, with all of their karma will be basically worthless.

Kind of extra funny/sad that Reddit’s primary source of income in the past few years appears to be selling training data to AI labs, to train the Models that are powering the bots.

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RealityVoid 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> At which point the bots, with all of their karma will be basically worthless.

Not really, it will still be kind of valuable for influence campaigns, a lot of people don't get it when there is a bit in the other side. Hell, a lot of times, I don't get it.

	▲	mikeocool an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I know a fair number of people “normies” who get some value out of smaller niche Reddit communities — for advice, and things like product recommendations. If suddenly all the posts are coming from bots who are trying push a product or just farm karma, I assume (perhaps naively) that those folks will get a lot less value, and stop showing up — even if they don’t realize it’s bots on the other side of the conversation.

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thwarted 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The upvotes ultimately train the bots, reenforcing the content posted. Even the most passive form of interaction has been co-opted for AI.

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z3c0 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Plus, there's the disproportionate ratio of posters:commenters:lurkers. The tendency to comment over keeping ones thoughts to themself is a selection bias inofitself.