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Hey everyone. If you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy!

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[–] pokkst@monero.town 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's so nice to not see GPT-3 bots replying to literally everything, like they have been for like 2 years now on Reddit.

[–] Lexicon@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

It felt like every other comment on popular subs (like r/AmITheAsshole) was a bot calling out another bot for having scraped and stolen a comment from someone farther down the comment chain. It makes me think that a significant portion of the traffic being seen still active on Reddit is just bots talking to each other. That, and porn subs, probably.

[–] GiantBasil@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

That was happening? Well it explains a lot of recent reddit then, it really felt people had really weird reading comprehension.

[–] KillaBeez@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is interesting. I had no idea this was a thing!

[–] pokkst@monero.town 3 points 1 year ago

It was more prevalent in cryptocurrency subs earlier on I think, but all the accounts shared a similar format for usernames and their replies would always just restate what the comment they're replying to said, just worded slightly different. Has been going on for a long while before the OpenGPT/ChatGPT stuff blew up near the end of 2022.