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silverbax@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

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    No, all bad online behavior now is “bots.”

    At least that’s how people in the comments on lemmy and Reddit label them.

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        It seems to correlate with the rise in general awareness of LLMs like ChatGPT. It seems like just the threat/possibility of ChatGPT being used has already distorted discourse online.

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        I always saw it as someone who only repeats talking points verbatim is essentially a robot. If I can’t tell if you are a human posting, or an automated response is there a meaningful difference?

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      Shut up, bot!

      Edit: Shitty typo

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        He’d probably need a strong sphincter muscle to manage that.

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          Lol, how did I miss that

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