Sounds an awful lot like the social credit score China was working on a few years back. Wouldn't be surprised if mods start preemptively banning users based on their AI summaries.
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I am thankful for the fediverse and hope this never finds its way over here.
Unfortunately, you know it will. If it can be done, someone will do it.
Honestly the fediverse is already a bit of a privacy nightmare, and people refuse to take it seriously. Our version of this horror will include your comments and voting activity and likely a bunch of other telemetry which isn't public on reddit. Oh and it won't just be a single "official" AI agent, it will be dozens of them from every corporate or government which wants to build a user database and keep it around forever.
We could bake real privacy protection into our fediverse apps, but the admins and devs seem to have completely punted on this.
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.)
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.
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.
i'll tip $5 to the first person who makes the ai say a slur
If I get it to call itself a clanker does that count?
it would need to get censored on network tv
That means that even the N word wouldn't count... 🤔
did you guys not use reddit detective back in the day?
also..
you get what you get in that shit show anyway.
I did, but the key difference is that it didn’t make an evaluation for you. It just gave you a collection of facts with some hard-coded things to look out for.
The new thing is way worse. It’s just skipping the facts part entirely.
It’s just skipping the facts part entirely.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Vibe facts are just as valid as normal facts. ChatGPT told me so. /s
I felt gross typing that.
Fuck reddit. Corporations ruined it.
nothing shows up for profiles viewed on old.reddit.com.
huzzah!
Can we get some more titties on Lemmy so I have zero reasons to go to that crappy site?
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.
Amazon uses something similar to summarize product reviews, and it seems fine... But who knows how accurate it is.
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 wonder what it would do on my empty reddit account that I cleared all the comments on before coming here
Ooo found a scary Reddit poster who might upset me. Thank Odin AI is here to save me like this /s
Time to find out what my profiles look like... so I can post differently on purpose.
edit: That third party site doesn't know what to make of me, so reddit might be equally confused.
Could one make a bot that automatically blocks people for you based on these descriptions. See how the admins like that.
Reddit won't ban the shitheads but they will summarize their post history so you can better determine who the shitheads are! ....thanks?
Narrator : "they were all shit heads"
my fav is people who harass you via messaging about some random comment you left months/years ago about how deeply hurt and offended they are.
I'm fascinated by the level of egotistical delusion it takes to be offended by random internet comments, let alone ones from old threads.
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
I read about a political polling company that will begin creating AI bot versions of the people that they poll. And they will use those AI bots to ask additional questions in the future. Questions that may not exist at the time of the poll.
Imagine what companies like Reddit will be able to do with their user data and advertisers.
I looked at my account to see if I'd have one, nope.
Just wait til they do that using tracking cookies and IP addresses across every site you visit, and sending the results to President Trump.
i wonder what my old Reddit account is.
That summary doesn't say anything. It's just the most neutral statements.
Agreed that it doesn't say anything because 'strong' and 'provocative' mean different things in different contexts such as subs with very different users.
A fediverse example is saying 'AI sucks' isn't provocative in c/Fuck_AI but is on the dbzer0 instance if provocative is based on votes or replies. Strong can just mean direct and clear. Sure, they might comment a lot about Palestine but the rest doesn't indicate whether they support Palestine or Israel because there is no context for what subs they post in.
Just worthless word salad.
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 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.
Yeah, AI is so reliable that this is totally helpful and nuanced. Probably counts down votes on comments about how Israel is committing genocide in conservative subs when determining if their comments are 'provocative'.
or when discussing the epstein files. the mods was able to completely quash the discussing by tricking them into only discussing it on a megathread then deleting it or banning anyone sitll taking about it. the mods are backed by russia too.
That actually seems like a good feature. If I open someones profile and thats the description I can instantly save myself time and energy by not replying and blocking.
That sounds like a pretty good feature if you ignore the lies AI might produce
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