▲ 12 ▼ AI Bots Appeared After Reddit Partnered with OpenAI (documentingourdecline.substack.com) submitted 8 months ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/technology@piefed.social comment fedilink hide all child comments An investigation into the AI bots that appeared on Reddit after they partnered with OpenAI. Key points: The bots post a lot of links to products and services which appear to be adverts but are not marked as such. Many of these links are for Sam Altman's World ID. Reddit added terms on AI advertising to their business page around the time the bots appeared. The bots also make up stories about dead mothers, depression, drug addiction, eating disorders, medical conditions and mental health issues.
▲ 103 ▼ AI Bots Appeared After Reddit Partnered with OpenAI (documentingourdecline.substack.com) submitted 8 months ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/reddit@lemmy.world 12 comments fedilink hide all child comments An investigation into the AI bots that appeared on Reddit after they partnered with OpenAI. Key points: The bots post a lot of links to products and services which appear to be adverts but are not marked as such. Many of these links are for Sam Altman’s World ID. Reddit added terms on AI advertising to their business page around the time the bots appeared. The bots also make up stories about dead mothers, depression, drug addiction, eating disorders, medical conditions and mental health issues.
▲ 95 ▼ AI Bots Appeared After Reddit Partnered with OpenAI (documentingourdecline.substack.com) submitted 8 months ago by DocumentingDecline@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.zip 12 comments fedilink hide all child comments An investigation into the AI bots that appeared on Reddit after they partnered with OpenAI. Key points: The bots post a lot of links to products and services which appear to be adverts but are not marked as such. Many of these links are for Sam Altman’s World ID. Reddit added terms on AI advertising to their business page around the time the bots appeared. The bots also make up stories about dead mothers, depression, drug addiction, eating disorders, medical conditions and mental health issues.
▲ 67 ▼ AI Bots Appeared After Reddit Partnered with OpenAI (documentingourdecline.substack.com) submitted 8 months ago by DocumentingDecline@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml 8 comments fedilink hide all child comments An investigation into the AI bots that appeared on Reddit after they partnered with OpenAI. Key points: The bots post a lot of links to products and services which appear to be adverts but are not marked as such. Many of these links are for Sam Altman's World ID. Reddit added terms on AI advertising to their business page around the time the bots appeared. The bots also make up stories about dead mothers, depression, drug addiction, eating disorders, medical conditions and mental health issues.