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What percentage of “user”-generated content on Reddit is slop now?
I know it’s not a popular opinion, but very little of it is.
I’m not saying there’s none - not saying that at all - but as far as your average thread where everyone is posting about all the other comments being AI generated… it’s very tedious and obviously untrue.
This matches what I see from the mod side. Bots go where moderation is cheap. The only thing that has worked for me is making every removal public with a reason and letting anyone promote their own product openly with a label and a cooldown. When promotion is allowed in the open, there’s much less reason to fake it.
What percentage of “user”-generated content on Reddit is slop now? And that’ll be fodder for the review AI?
It’s an ouroboros of shit, but it can’t even eat its own tail because it’s pumping out so much shit that it’s somehow getting larger!
Right? This just feels like a scheme to “launder” astroturfing and make it seem more legitimate.
I know it’s not a popular opinion, but very little of it is.
I’m not saying there’s none - not saying that at all - but as far as your average thread where everyone is posting about all the other comments being AI generated… it’s very tedious and obviously untrue.
If you have one well moderated forum for normal users and a shit one nobody goes to, the bots will show up at the latter.
If the AI review function doesn’t tell the difference, the bombardment of fakes in the second will tilt review summaries significantly
This matches what I see from the mod side. Bots go where moderation is cheap. The only thing that has worked for me is making every removal public with a reason and letting anyone promote their own product openly with a label and a cooldown. When promotion is allowed in the open, there’s much less reason to fake it.