Post #35753

2025-12-06 18:07 UTC

Let’s not blame AI for everything: Reddit had a lot of problems before AI became big. Repost bots are so common that you’ll see the same posts over and over again. Some of those twitter screenshots must have been posted hundreds or thousands of times. OnlyFans spam also works without AI. And we have had those bots spamming the same stupid comments before people were even thinking about GPTs.

Replies (3)

@lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2025-12-06 19:05

Repost bots should be built in to Reddit tbh Just take whatever was the top 5 a year ago and repost it at the same time Karma guaranteed

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@tynansdtm@lemmy.ml 2025-12-06 22:12

While I agree being shitty is a human problem, shitty people are using AI to be shitty faster.

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@MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 2025-12-07 19:08

We can absolutely blame AI for everything. The reason AI took over Reddit is because Reddit fired their human moderators in favour of AI moderation. It’s basically a vicious circle of bots learning how to avoid being banned, and auto moderation learning how they’re avoiding being banned…repeat. …the obvious problem being that bots are valuable to Reddit because they increase real engagement…if there weren’t bots, Reddit would make its own bots to do basically the same thing. Reddit only wants to restrict bots to a certain proportion of the population, rather than eliminate them.

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