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Damn, coincidentally related to both Reddit and the "Redditors are bots" thing I wrote about, this piece was written just yesterday:


A bot was used for multiple days on r/askreddit and gave realistic answers to posts/questions made by actual people.

At this point, the "redditors are NPCs" joke may not even really be a joke at all lmao.

I mean, that user was found out to be a bot, what about the ones who aren't found out? Reddit is like a mixture of pre-made shill comments for politics, fake posts for advertisements and bots for moderators and a portion of users. Although I don't think the bot actually replied to other people's comments? Afaik it only replied to the questions posted by OP. But I haven't looked through the bots account yet.

Who would've thought the birtplace of skynet would be on fucking Reddit l e l

Also, here's the bot's account for those who want to check it out


lol I like this reply the bot got though:

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Also, he's becoming conscious:

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Syntaxion12 said:
Damn, coincidentally related to both Reddit and the "Redditors are bots" thing I wrote about, this piece was written just yesterday:


A bot was used for multiple days on r/askreddit and gave realistic answers to posts/questions made by actual people.

At this point, the "redditors are NPCs" joke may not even really be a joke at all lmao.

I mean, that user was found out to be a bot, what about the ones who aren't found out? Reddit is like a mixture of pre-made shill comments for politics, fake posts for advertisements and bots for moderators and a portion of users. Although I don't think the bot actually replied to other people's comments? Afaik it only replied to the questions posted by OP. But I haven't looked through the bots account yet.

Who would've thought the birtplace of skynet would be on fucking Reddit l e l

Also, here's the bot's account for those who want to check it out

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I mean it isnt hard to make a reddit bot that replies to comments. It way easier to make one undetectable because so many posts have the same 4 comments over and over with the same replies that if you just have the bot break up it posts and not post in weird subs then its easy for it to go unnoticed for a while. I have worked with one for a bit actually.
 
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Otis Boi said:
I mean it isnt hard to make a reddit bot that replies to comments. It way easier to make one undetectable because so many posts have the same 4 comments over and over with the same replies that if you just have the bot break up it posts and not post in weird subs then its easy for it to go unnoticed for a while. I have worked with one for a bit actually.
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I'd agree with short comments like "I agree with you", a bot that makes those kind of short comments are probably easy to make, which is why I think a portion of Redditors are bots to begin with, since they're all such a hivemind. But this bot writes entire multiple paragraph long essays that answer the question so well, it's indistinguishable from a real person. Atleast mostly, when you read the comments while keeping in mind a bot wrote it, you notice that it says some nonsensical stuff imo

What kind of bot did you work with? GPT3? Was it for Reddit or social media or something entirely different?
 
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Syntaxion12 said:
A bot was used for multiple days on r/askreddit and gave realistic answers to posts/questions made by actual people.

Who would've thought the birtplace of skynet would be on fucking Reddit l e l
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If we make the assumption that Reddit is full of bots, they're able to be programmed to repeat any message.

Bots are bullying people into submission until they submit the correct opinion.
 
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DisobedientLupus said:
It's a combo of bots and shill masters. We all remember what happened with Tay a few years ago. They learned from that and now have actual people controlling the bots to stop them from going full 14/88 gas the kikes. Who are the bot masters? Probably employees of a Soros funded NGO.
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It's mostly David Brock's ActBlue I'd say. They bragged about controlling the narrative during 2016 and their fingerprints are all over the shift towards shillary on most subs during the election.
 
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I love how the redditors are relying on human-generated content for safety rather than their own critical analysis. "NO NO NO THE BOTS ARE BAD ITS GOING TO DESTROY EVERYTHING IT NEEDS TO BE BANNED". The person (or program) responsible for generating the content is irrelevant. The nature of the content and what it represents is what's important, and this is where a persons ability to be thinking and critical comes into play.

Take imageboards for example. No one has an identity. When you read a post, you judge the post. You don't go looking through an accounts history to find some stupid shit they said 40 posts ago. You don't look at an internet point score to determine whether the post deserves a reply or not. You don't let a profile picture or a name subconsciously influence your judgement. You don't look at a join date and hope that its less than a few months old, so you can use the newfag insult as an argument. Whether a male, female, white person, black person, 40 year old, 18 year old, or a bot made the post doesn't matter.

The bots could very well be used for more aggressive spamming, creating noise in the form of irrelevant posts, and shilling products, but these can all be mitigated effectively with different means, and it ultimately falls back on the individual to think critically. The problems people complain bots will bring forth are already present on the platform, and many are victims of it already.
 
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Syntaxion12 said:
I'd agree with short comments like "I agree with you", a bot that makes those kind of short comments are probably easy to make, which is why I think a portion of Redditors are bots to begin with, since they're all such a hivemind. But this bot writes entire multiple paragraph long essays that answer the question so well, it's indistinguishable from a real person. Atleast mostly, when you read the comments while keeping in mind a bot wrote it, you notice that it says some nonsensical stuff imo

What kind of bot did you work with? GPT3? Was it for Reddit or social media or something entirely different?
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I'm not discounting the bot from that article at all. It is unbelievablely impressive. I was mostly just saying that it wouldn't be able to trick a redditor into it beining real. I think a lot of Redditors are the lowest common denominator.

As for my bot I should say starting out im in no way a professional programmer mostly a hobbyist. It was the skeleton of a socail media bot in general I tried to make from scratch it was suppose to work with reddit and Twitter mainly. It kinda split off into on general bot that responded with meme and rule skirting phrases to get a rise out of people and what I dubed the politisperg bot which would respond with over the top anecdotes depending on the political topic. Alot of the quotes where taken from other redditors about the same topic with slight edits or just random opinion taken to a logical extreme. Took a good month before anything happened to that bot. Was a fun experience overall
 
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Step one: post something slightly against groupthink
2: a few downvotes lead to a spoor of blood in the water, leading to karmic destruction and the loss of the account to to negative karma in the hundreds

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4 profit THE HIVEMIND IS PLEASED PRAISE BE SPEZ AND HIS GINGER PUBES
 
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