L4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoReddit captures 7% to 16% less audience time during blackoutwww.similarweb.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up198arrow-down10
arrow-up198arrow-down1external-linkReddit captures 7% to 16% less audience time during blackoutwww.similarweb.comL4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squareWhipTheLlama@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
minus-squarepunkskunk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoThere’s no doubt we’ve seen an increase in convincing bot posts across social media. It would be interesting to apply some LLM detection methods to Reddit to see growth of bot posts over time: https://medium.com/@rxtang/the-science-of-detecting-llm-generated-texts-e816a14c18d
minus-squareThe_Vampire@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoUnfortunately, such detection methods are often completely unreliable. It might be able to detect obvious cases, but it’s no good at detecting the difference between smarter bots and people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
There’s no doubt we’ve seen an increase in convincing bot posts across social media. It would be interesting to apply some LLM detection methods to Reddit to see growth of bot posts over time: https://medium.com/@rxtang/the-science-of-detecting-llm-generated-texts-e816a14c18d
Unfortunately, such detection methods are often completely unreliable. It might be able to detect obvious cases, but it’s no good at detecting the difference between smarter bots and people.
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That’s… Eerily scary