Marketers and their bots have been using reddit to hype up brands. No wonder Reddit feels like shit these days.
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Plot twist: They did not build shit, the text is generated by AI, and whatever they do is still done by third country workers.
here is to hoping that lemmy never grows
The linkedin writing format must be banned, exhausting, unreadable and way too self important. It’s not a haiku write like a normal person you lunatic. Also these bots are destroying public forums, don’t expect any praise from me.
Lemmy just BLEW AWAY the LinkedIn Writing Style.
A few simple witty posts have utterly upended how we communicate on the internet.
Normal Users:
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Post replies
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Up and Downvote
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Embarassingly minimizing the display when your boss approaches the desk.
And maybe that works for normal online interactions.
Sure, it’s fine if you’re an entry level Lemmy user
But you’ll never change the culture of the internet.
So we came up with
Something that’s
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We first started using
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It’s called memes.
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Decent chance that post was written by AI as well. Or it was a marketing copywriter. Either way it wasn’t written by a normal human.
Anyone that works in marketing needs to be flogged in the streets for their crimes.
I get the feeling you and Bill Hicks would have gotten along: https://youtu.be/9h9wStdPkQY
Nahhhh. When ads are clever or funny its fine. This lower effort bullshit need to die
Nah. manipulating people into buying things they don’t need is a trash career. It’s not a productive or necessary job. It hurts more than it can ever help.
What a self report. This guy is complicit in turning the age of information into the age of propaganda.
“These days”? Reddit has been hot garbage since before the 3rd party API bullshit
Its scum behavior but its smart. If you can get your product into a reddit thread that gives a ton of free high quality advertising. Its why the site turned to site so fast once normal people found out about it. Suddenly you had products being shilled in every community and threads created solely for the purpose of posting a reply that said to buy a product. AI is just a cherry ontop of the already souless reddit behaviour and quite frankly its what they deserve.
More than a decade and a half later and pretentious SEO fanatics still fucking make my eyes roll.
They make me think of kids who hide food they don’t want to eat in stupid places and get all surprised when they realize it makes wherever they were hiding it into a biohazard.
Or anyone who thinks they are getting a free benefit from using something a certain way and completely ignoring that each use ruins it a bit more.
Never forget that the morally correct thing to do if you happen to meet one of these people it to punch them in the mouth.
God, I just hate the way these people fucking talk. Everything is a bulleted list and sentence fragments.
100% written by an LLM. They always use this tone and it’s infuriating.
People who abuse GenAI no longer can tell when the shit they post look like GenAI. They only talk to AI so it looks normal to them.
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That’s one of the signs of LLM output, take any idea and have it flesh it out into short article. It’ll bullet point the crap out of it
LLMs learned it by watching these idiots.
Yeah, but even when it’s not an LLM, they type like this now
Monkey see, monkey do…
Like the world’s worst haiku.
Reddit feels like Quora at this point with all the affiliate links and promotions
Reddit has been agressively banning data dumps of the Epstein files.
This doesn’t explain why Reddit has decided that I need multiple Hindi sub referrals every day.
Years and years of data regarding me, zero Hindi, zero Indian, zero interest, AND YET here’s another suggested Hindi sub! Fantastic work.
But the Jesus ads sealed the deal, adios Redditto
apologies for my off topic ramble, but I feel better.
This is so funny because I’m Indian and I’ve never come across a Hindi sub on Reddit.
I’m not even exaggerating, EVERY DAY in my feed repeatedly, not even in English, absolutely zero discernible reason. No Chinese. No Brazilian. No German. It’s not even random.
Also, Jesus ads. “He gets us”. Why Jesus ads in English AND Hindi Indian subs? It’s almost spiteful
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the internet needs to be burnt to the ground and built back up for humans to humans. I hate this timeline were are living in
The turbo-hell part is that the spam comments aren’t even being written for humans to see. The intention is that ChatGPT picks up the spam and incorporates it into its training.
I worked at a company that sold to doctors and the marketing team was spending most of their effort on this kind of thing. They said that nowadays when doctors want to know “what should I buy to solve X?” or “which is better A or B?” they ask ChatGPT and take its answer as factual. They said that they were very successful in generating blog articles for OpenAI to train on so that our product would be the preferred answer.
My god. Somehow I hadn’t thought of doctors using LLMs to make decisions like that. But of course at least some do.
You never want to know how the sausage is made.
Oof. Haven’t met a lot of doctors huh? Check out some of their subreddits
Considering that LLM content that makes it into training content makes the trained LLMs worse… is this adversarial?
US is full of companies that publicly claim to manipulate reddit threads as PR protection. They all do it exactly like you’d expect - people with dozens of phones going through threads writing shit. Even if users are banned and their phone fingerprinted they just dump the phones for new ones.
Reddit knows could actually sue them and very likely to win but that would be a lot of attention at them.
The best part of this is - if commercial PR companies can afford to run this then what China, Russia and such are doing must have absolutely bonkers. There’s very little internet actually left organic.
