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[-] Windex007@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

One of the most insideous and common bot karma farming techniques is to "replay" a historical post.

They'll look at a post and comments from like 8 years ago, and have one account make the post, and then have other bots copy the original top comments. Then have another set of bots post the original responses to those comments.

As a result, none of the bots look like bots... Because they're actually more accurately "ghosts" of other real human users.

So when people are talking about bots, it's not just LLMs. It's also accounts which "fill out" the space, but which are actually just airing re-runs.

The only thing I really miss about Reddit is subredditsimulator. At least then, you know for a fact that it's all bots, and is to be consulted sheerly for entertainment value.

this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2024
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