On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations

Re:On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations by 93po on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @08:47AM (#37404329)

There’s an important distinction here. Most of the comments you read. You being the general you. Most people will read a few dozen comments at most. These comments are overwhelmingly written by bots or inauthentic participants in subreddits like r politics. And they’re the most visible because these same groups also upvote them inauthentically

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Re:On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations by yreg on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @09:34AM (#37404890)

I just don't think that's the case yet, but we probably have no evidence one way or the other.

I don't know about /r/politics since I don't read it, but say in /r/worldnews, /r/europe, /r/ukrainewarvideoreport, /r/noncredibledefence, when I open a thread and pick ten comments at random and then take a look at their user histories I believe most are human.

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Re:On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations by proudeu on Friday September 08, 2023 @03:11AM (#37430490)

I think /r/worldnews is 90% bots, judging by the repeating content and style of writing in comment section. And yes it looks like human would write.

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Re:On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations by yreg on Friday September 08, 2023 @01:43PM (#37436852)

>judging by the repeating content and style of writing in comment section

This is how reddit always has been.

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Re:On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations by 93po on Friday September 08, 2023 @06:14PM (#37440007)

Two things happen here:

1. bot farms buy stolen/sold accounts that have human comment history

2. bot farms re-post human content and then repost human comments on that content in a huge cycle to mimic the appearance of being human

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