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GreatGazoo

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10. the role of Bots and AI have set off a big debate around Reddit stock and earnings

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2026, 01:15 PM

14 hrs ago

User growth has been flat for a long time. CW is that their karma system is both gamed by AI and hostile to real users who can't compete with "karma farming" and fake posts that leverage LLMs and machine learning to generate high engagement fictions on subs like AITAH and AIO.

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We Tried to Detect Bots in 500 Comments. We Found a More Interesting Problem. [View all] usonian 16 hrs ago OP

Vapid R US* Attilatheblond 16 hrs ago #1

It's infecting the rest of the world, too. erronis 13 hrs ago #13

Guess that explains why..... Flo Mingo 15 hrs ago #2

Bot or not? Hard to tell when people act like bots. usonian 15 hrs ago #4

The ones that are likely to put their foot down on something like this will be advertisers AZJonnie 15 hrs ago #3

Am I the only one who would like to know exactly what a bot is? CrispyQ 15 hrs ago #5

Let me count the ways! There are so many. usonian 14 hrs ago #8

Useful info. To add to the original question: erronis 13 hrs ago #14

On my university sysadmin job, I noticed that some systems timed you out quickly if you dawdled typing a password. usonian 13 hrs ago #16

When I wrote web scrapers/spiders/whatever, I usually added random pauses erronis 12 hrs ago #17

Some websites disable pasting passwords. usonian 12 hrs ago #18

You can get around that disabling pasting if you really want. erronis 9 hrs ago #19

I did electronic and optical engineering to start. Built my own S-100 systems back in the day. usonian 9 hrs ago #20

Sounds a bit like my history --- I'll DM you so I won't clutter these airwaves. erronis 7 hrs ago #21

One nation controlled by the media flvegan 15 hrs ago #6

Orwell explained newspeak and why Big Brother has to rewrite history. usonian 14 hrs ago #9

Seems worth pointing out who "Musabi Labs" are: muriel_volestrangler 14 hrs ago #7

sorry but blubunyip 14 hrs ago #12

Yup. "holistic" just raised another huge red flag. erronis 13 hrs ago #15

the role of Bots and AI have set off a big debate around Reddit stock and earnings GreatGazoo 14 hrs ago #10

This is Reddit. Made up stories and fake emotion's Melon 14 hrs ago #11