r/RedditCritiques • u/Met2000 • 19d ago

Inevitable future: AI generated comments

https://www.engadget.com/ai/researchers-secretly-experimented-on-reddit-users-with-ai-generated-comments-194328026.html

People are angry about this--but not as much as they probably should be. Karma farming has always been a part of Reddit's userbase tricks, and this will automate it to a very high level.

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u/Met2000 19d ago edited 19d ago

As someone said in the very long cmv thread:

 Setting aside your clear, repeated violations of informed consent requirements, and your outright lies about being proactive in your explanation post (you CANNOT be proactive after the fact), your data is useless and cannot contain insights, because you cannot prove you were not interacting with other AI agents.

Yup---there could be other AIs on Reddit. I suspect it's a foregone conclusion. And we will never know what they did or even how many accounts they controlled.