DickieGreenleaf84 t1_j1bcnj9 wrote on December 23, 2022 at 1:16 AM

What are you sorting by? There's definitely bots upvoting a bunch of AI stuff across reddit at the moment. I'm not sure who benefits by it, tbh.

Tamagotchi41 OP t1_j1bi86h wrote on December 23, 2022 at 1:59 AM

It's my home page, when I'm on the sub I usually have it on Hot and I see non AI stuff. But my phone page seems to only show the AI stuff from the sub.

icedrift t1_j1bmot8 wrote on December 23, 2022 at 2:34 AM

How do you know bots are upvoting AI stuff?

Georg_Simmel t1_j1booed wrote on December 23, 2022 at 2:50 AM

Everyone thinks that everything that annoys them on the internet is "bots." Get downvoted? Bots. A post annoys you? Bots. Someone posted a political opinion you don't agree with? Bots.

AI is popular in the media right now and reddit "broke" the algorithm, so people are convinced this is some conspiracy to get us to accept AI.

I don't doubt that bots are used to manipulate content on reddit but if the low-effort crap that's showing up in my feed is their goal, it's not working out well.

icedrift t1_j1bphdl wrote on December 23, 2022 at 2:56 AM

Pretty much where I stand on the matter. Like yeah, bots are everywhere and undeniably are used in an attempt to manipulate public opinion, but Occam's razor comes first. AI terms have been blowing up on google trends these past few months there's no big conspiracy to 1984 your opinion of AI lmao.

DickieGreenleaf84 t1_j1bnv6i wrote on December 23, 2022 at 2:43 AM

I sit on "new" when I'm bored. If you see a post less than a minute old with over a dozen upvotes...its a bot.