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Stumbled across this screenshot. Now, instead of judging people for yourself, the computer can do it for you!!! This will in no way be used negatively by Reddit nor people who are arguing with each other. Original post is here, if anyone still has Reddit maybe go spread the good word of Lemmy and Piefed to these users :P
This clearly shows that such implementation of AI is a solution that still seeks for the problem. Such summary doesn't add anything helpful. On top of this, since AI is known to hallucinate, one has to check the comments for themselves, making a summary obsolete.
If I was still posting on Reddit, shit like this would immediately prompt me to delete all my stuff
It's helpful in the nominal sense of allowing mods to dismiss people without having to do any work themselves. Which is precisely the problem AI is designed to solve... human beings have to do work and make judgemental calls. People generally do not like doing work if it can be avoided.
Sounds an awful lot like the social credit score China was working on a few years back. Wouldn't be surprised if mods start preemptively banning users based on their AI summaries.
The "social credit score" in China was blown out of proportion too. It probably changed since I last looked into it. But when that shit was all over American media it was literally the equivalent of a background check or credit score in the US. Work history, loan and credit history, etc.
Like, it's funny how we can have essentially the same exact thing but only critize China's version of it. Make it scary by adding "social" to the name. People ate that shit up.
Edit: to be clear I think both should be critized. Especially related to criminal history bias on race. But we spend more time talking about the Chinese version that doesn't actually effect anyone's lives in the US.
It was blown out of proportion by american media but its still used to levy economic punishment and blacklist people from using basic features of society like riding a train or catching a flight.
Mods already use bots to preemptively ban you based on what subreddits you have left comments on regardless of context.
What they're talking about here is a blueprint for stamping out individuality.
Omg, you are such a Monica.
Human personalities can be clustered into which member of the cast of Friends they most resemble.
Fortunately, Friends is so brilliantly written that they managed to capture the entire spectrum of human diversity.
(this is snark. I am totally a Chandler.)
Could you be any more Chandler?
It’s not just Reddit, anything public is being scraped by AI and all anyone has to do is just ask any of the LLMs and they can provide the same kind of summary…
I tried this recently with my name and it couldn't find anything. Using RNG usernames may be the play because they're so generic :P
I was actually able to run it on a couple different users and it was very in-depth. On your username in particular it showed this thread so they must be searching the web for the username. It could be that newer models are searching more instances than they were before as well.
This is the first post I've had that's had a notable number of votes so maybe if I delete it in a month it won't show up anymore if its just searching the web.
Can we get some more titties on Lemmy so I have zero reasons to go to that crappy site?
https://lemmynsfw.com/ exists, so..
jinx, 4 seconds apart in our reply LOL
you win though, i was too lazy to look for the boobs category :D
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
I am thankful for the fediverse and hope this never finds its way over here.
Honestly the fediverse is already a bit of a privacy nightmare, and people refuse to take it seriously. Our version of this horror will include your comments and voting activity and likely a bunch of other telemetry which isn't public on reddit. Oh and it won't just be a single "official" AI agent, it will be dozens of them from every corporate or government which wants to build a user database and keep it around forever.
We could bake real privacy protection into our fediverse apps, but the admins and devs seem to have completely punted on this.
Unfortunately, you know it will. If it can be done, someone will do it.
Sure, but one instance making something stupid doesn't mean all or most will. The decentralizing part has its advantages and disadvantages. Not being owned by a single corporation with stock holders is definitely the main advantage.
Fuck reddit. Corporations ruined it.
I was away from Reddit for over two years, and then one of my old accounts was compromised by some pornographer.
I didn’t like that, so I got the account back. Poked around for a little bit after that.
I got banned from /r/worldnews on my first comment there for celebrating the beating of that douche-nozzle known as “Big Balls.”
Fuck em. Didn’t dispute anything, just immediately done posting there again. Reddit is unrecognizable vs where it was in June 2023. I’m pretty sure half the participants are AI; and they’re using AI based personas to drive up their metrics and subsequently their stock price.
This person has strong opinions about the population of people currently victim to a live streamed genocide their tax dollars are funding.
Well, fuck, I would sure hope so.
Lol that is some dystopian shit right there.
This really makes me think the Amish were right after all with regards to modern tech.
I personally wouldn't go that far. But, yeah, we need to de-tech-ify a bit. And I am all for steal the control of the internet back from giant corporations.
it's not tech that is the problem. it's predictive algorithms that push users to passive consumption of media.
The internet was interesting when it was random. algorithms remove randomness. corporations loathe randomness. in the 2000s everyone was going on about how tech/internet was going to allow us this international cultural renaissance by making everything everywhere accessible to everyone...
Remember when netflix and spotify algorithms actually helped you find interesting and new content? I do. But those algorithms didn't promote the right content... so they were changed to promote the 'right' content that benefited their owners most, not the users. Now if i want to find random/new/interesting stuff... I have to manually search for it and know exactly what I'm trying to find... because that type of content is actively suppressed.
the algo driven internet has only been predominantly since the 2010s
nothing shows up for profiles viewed on old.reddit.com.
huzzah!
Old Reddit is the only reason why I visit it sporadically. Combined with RES, I still have the same basic keybindings to browse I had multiple years ago. The new UI of Reddit is a waste of space.
Holy fuck!
Amazon uses something similar to summarize product reviews, and it seems fine... But who knows how accurate it is.
(considering amazon reviews are completely dogshit and mostly bought off I'd imagine not very)
I'm curious how stuff like this works. Surely, many people's post histories can't fit into context. So, maybe the LLM keeps some sort of "blackboard" of summaries of posts, and edits it as it goes along? Would be pretty computationally expensive. I suppose another way would be to create embeddings of each post, and do some sort of clustering or something.
The same way that you can look at someone's post history, skim it, and more or less understand what their deal is.
Most users on reddit don't have this diverse set of interests or posts. Most of them post on the same subs and repeat the same types of posts... ad nauseam. Most people, online, aren't much more sophisticated in their language use or POV or anything... than a bot.
Sure, 10 years ago you'd look at someone's post history and it would be all over the place, and they'd be writing detailed and nuaced paragraphics in lots of detail... but that's not what reddit is like anymore, or most of the internet really. God I remember when libertarians actually had decent theoretical argumentation to defend their viewpoints... and now it's just memes and cliche phrases repeated over and over.
Pretty easy for any LLM to parse a person who just incessantly posts about the same stuff over and over. And if it came across someone doing long-form explanatory stuff... it would just ignore that data since that doesn't fit the task LLM is designed to process.
did you guys not use reddit detective back in the day?
also..
you get what you get in that shit show anyway.
I did, but the key difference is that it didn’t make an evaluation for you. It just gave you a collection of facts with some hard-coded things to look out for.
The new thing is way worse. It’s just skipping the facts part entirely.
It’s just skipping the facts part entirely.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Vibe facts are just as valid as normal facts. ChatGPT told me so. /s
I felt gross typing that.
Hahaha holy shit, Reddit's become worse than I thought. AI being added to something is how you know it's truly turned to shite.
Reddit won't ban the shitheads but they will summarize their post history so you can better determine who the shitheads are! ....thanks?