Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 3locked
hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!
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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!
What do you mean by mentioning SubredditSimulator here? Wasn't that a GPT experiment made by a random user or was there something more nefarious at play that I completely missed?
SubredditSimulator was a fun experiment by a random user with increasingly improving realism, training ChatGPT on real comments.
It also showed Reddit Inc you can fake engagement and community interaction with bots, which are now astroturfing the fuck out of the site.
Dang, I never thought about that. It explains a lot though