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
Just deleted my account. This was the final straw.
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.
Outside of medicine or other data analysis, AI doesn’t have much of a use.
Generating bland corporate copy/logos?
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?
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it will be nothing more than grok and FB combined soon enough. the only reason reddit has completely astroturfed left leaning content, is because it allows right wingers to drive up engagement in those subs.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
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
Yeah but it’s filled with sellers and their constant engagement bait… And it’s missing the hentai artists/animators.
Also on a personal complain most of the content are slim/thin/flat women… I like them with curves and some meat/muscle.
I noticed that there’s virtually zero women asking for naked men. I kind of hope this means they are done with men, and will finally allow the population to collapse.
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.
it generally only rewards group think and rage bait. like every other algorithmically driven social media platform.
and trolls will report/ban anything that deviates from that as controversial or harmful.
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.
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
Agreed. Engagement driven algorithms are the worst.
Lol that is some dystopian shit right there.
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.
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.
If you want to relive the old times there’s a few of us minarchists libertarians that migrated over here. But yeah most of us got banned from /r/libertarian back in 2014. I’m still pretty sure it was a Russian govt backed op. Whole mod team was purged twice. Once all of us troublesome posters who would point out that all the new talking points were antherical to personal liberteries and freedom we were muted it devolved rapidly.
It’s all about controlling the narrative.
Anyone who doesn’t comply with whatever the narrative is gets banned. Whatever the political ideology is, it devolves into ‘true believers’ vs everyone else, and the true believers are the ones who have no idea what their ideology really is other than shouting slogans and issuing purity tests on their fellow members.
The thing is the sub used to be a anti echo chamber. Open to all debate daily there would be questions and open discussion about policy and global politics. It was literally a free and open forum. Anyone could post and all were encouraged to debate in a atmosphere similar to a change my view type setup.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/reddit-libertarian-takeover-far-right/
Yeah but that type of environment requites people who aren’t believers, but who are thinkers. Who don’t think belief is merely a set of dogma that must be protect and proselytized.
I was part of the community for multiple years it did work fine until it was forced into the echo chamber
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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.
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)
insane
i wonder what my old Reddit account is.
I edited all my comments to be generic observations, so the only really useful metrics would be where and what I commented on
i couldn’t even find the shit feature anyway
That sounds like a pretty good feature if you ignore the lies AI might produce
