most of the time you’ll be talking to a bot there without even realizing. they’re gonna feed you products and ads interwoven into conversations, and the AI can be controlled so its output reflects corporate interests. advertisers are gonna be able to buy access and run campaigns. based on their input, the AI can generate thousands of comments and posts, all to support your corporate agenda.

for example you can set it to hate a public figure and force negative commentary into conversations all over the site. you can set it to praise and recommend your latest product. like when a pharma company has a new pill out, they’ll be able to target self-help subs and flood them with fake anecdotes and user testimony that the new pill solves all your problems and you should check it out.

the only real humans you’ll find there are the shills that run the place, and the poor suckers that fall for the scam.

it’s gonna be a shithole.

  • dismalnow
    16•1 year ago

    And it’s not really a hot take.

    If I could have this thought independently, it’s probably already a common view.

    (Reddit)'s dying… slowly, and painfully. This decline will go on for years. into the endgame of mostly automoderated, bot-driven content.

    …

    Force those who remain to use a substandard app - inhibiting human interaction with the platform further.

    All you’re left with is content addicts, trolls, ads, dregs from the darkest corners, and bots that feed them.

    • TheRazorX
      8•1 year ago

      Another stealth benefit to reddit with all this API crap, is that it’ll be much harder to tell since most of the tools people use to analyze accounts won’t work anymore. Keeping in mind Reddit started out by inflating their user numbers.