The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs against information asymmetry

Re:The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs agains... by elliotec on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @12:32PM (#45749217)

The irony of leaving a community where "most of the content is obviously bot generated, which is just depressing" to going full-on into zero community bot-generation via LLM is fascinating.

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Re:The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs agains... by ses1984 on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @01:02PM (#45749720)

At least you get to prompt the llm, as opposed to consuming content where you don’t know what the prompt was and could have been intended to misinform.

At least the response doesn’t have an ad injected between each paragraph and is intentionally padded out so you scroll past more ads…

…yet.

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Re:The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs agains... by AlexandrB on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @01:07PM (#45749815)

> At least the response doesn’t have an ad injected between each paragraph and is intentionally padded out so you scroll past more ads…

Wouldn't know about this thanks to old.reddit.com - once that's gone I don't see much reason to use Reddit.

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Re:The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs agains... by ses1984 on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @01:16PM (#45749949)

I was generalizing to more sites than just reddit.

Mostly I see a ton of ai slop that pollutes google search results, you’ll see an intro paragraph that looks vaguely coherent, but the more you scroll, the more apparent you’re reading ai slop.

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Re:The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs agains... by gridspy on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @04:22PM (#45752540)

There are ads on the internet? Do you mean in that short window between installing a browser and installing the extensions?

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Re:The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs agains... by trenchpilgrim on Thursday October 30, 2025 @11:32AM (#45761150)

An ad blocker won't stop ads embedded into the content. You can get free fries at McDonalds on Fridays with any $1 purchase if you install their app!

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Re:The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs agains... by ninjagoo on Thursday October 30, 2025 @06:45AM (#45758464)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-ad-rem...

Works on firefox mobile too, just have to go to extensions for all firefox (as opposed to the default mobile firefox extensions page), and add it from there.

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Re:The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs agains... by abixb on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @12:36PM (#45749293)

With LLMs, I'm viscerally aware that it's a bot generating output from its pre-trained/fine-tuned model weights with occasional RAG.

With reddit, folks go there expecting some semblance of genuine human interaction (reddit's #1 rule was "remember the human"). So, there's that expectation differential. Not ironic at all.

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Re:The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs agains... by didibus on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @12:46PM (#45749469)

LLMs just gets its data from Reddit bots though

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Re:The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs agains... by renewiltord on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @12:56PM (#45749630)

How is that ironic? If I was in a place with Indian and Thai restaurants and then it turned out all the Thai restaurants have only Indian food, I would rather go to an Indian restaurant for the food. That's about the most non-ironic thing ever.

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Re:The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs agains... by GuinansEyebrows on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @04:21PM (#45752533)

fitting your scenario to the conversation: i wanted thai food.

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Re:The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs agains... by renewiltord on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @04:39PM (#45752712)

Yep, exactly, but there isn't any. The places saying they serve Thai food serve Indian food. If so, I'll go get my Indian food from where it's actually done well.

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Re:The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs agains... by quitit on Thursday October 30, 2025 @05:42AM (#45758059)

It does sound paradoxical, but it's the difference between steering information to things that serve you, versus having others steer the information you see to things that serve them.

Reddit right now is in a very bad place. It's passed the threshold where bots are posting and replying to themselves. If humans left the platform it would probably look much the same as it does now.

The result is a noticeable uptick in forums moving to discord or rolling their own websites. Which is probably a good thing for dodging the obvious commercial manipulation, propaganda and foreign influence vectors.

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