| ▲ | chownie 5 hours ago |
| > Are they interesting, well thought out, well articulated, and insightful? The average AI post is likely a carbon copied reddit comment from 2011, that is to say, "no". |
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| ▲ | ndriscoll 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Then either they're easy to spot, or the human ones are equally low-value. |
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| ▲ | chownie 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | I would love if it could be a false dichotomy, but given conservative estimates pin about 30% of online posts to AI it seems like there may be a third outcome: we patch the visible holes of humans posting less and less from disinterest by making the bots post more and more. The end result is that comment sections aren't enticing to join in on, just read. Which is perfect for ad impressions. | | |
| ▲ | ndriscoll 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | The sites that are there for ad impressions already worked this way though. The incentives were geared toward poor human discussion as well (c.f. reddit as a best case, and e.g. instagram/tiktok/youtube as what they'd like to be). So the problem here is ads, a desire to grow to include the entire world to show them ads, and a desire to do whatever it takes to keep their attention to show them ads. |
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| ▲ | plagiarist 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The average human post on reddit is a carbon-copied comment from 2011 |
