I’m seeing tons and tons of automated behavior on Reddit.
Posts that are clearly farmed bots that figured out how to use LLMs to vary the same genre of question over and over again.
LLM Bots that seem to respond set to counter at all costs mode. Yes I’m aware of how dumb people can be, but these adapt in a way that feels very LLMish — instantly sacrificing the point just to counter you and try to get another response
On top of that I see Google is dumping tons of fresh traffic, but the behavior of these users seems different than Google drop bys. These are tons and tons of users who seemingly appear out of thin air with histories.
I dunno — it all seems really weird and particularly set for rage engagement to me.
Reddit is the ideal place for bots, because there is a critical mass of anonymous posters who will bicker about topics they know nothing about–not to mention numerous other shameless cultural practices. It is may already be impossible for regular users to tell themselves apart from LLMs when engaged in typical Reddit discourse.
The problem is that infinite bicker produces low quality long term training data, terrible ad targeting data, and even worse conversions.
So unless they exclusively plan to sell rage engagement to film
Studios and political campaigns their market is going to be microscopic and terribly performing.
Businesses are going to need to be extra cautious about social media advertising spend in the era of LLMs. Personally, I think social networks are doomed, unless they can figure out how to lock things down. Will be difficult to do on a website known for anonymous posting.
Posts that are clearly farmed bots that figured out how to use LLMs to vary the same genre of question over and over again.
LLM Bots that seem to respond set to counter at all costs mode. Yes I’m aware of how dumb people can be, but these adapt in a way that feels very LLMish — instantly sacrificing the point just to counter you and try to get another response
On top of that I see Google is dumping tons of fresh traffic, but the behavior of these users seems different than Google drop bys. These are tons and tons of users who seemingly appear out of thin air with histories.
I dunno — it all seems really weird and particularly set for rage engagement to me.