AI Bots Appeared After Reddit Partnered with OpenAI
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.
AI Bots Appeared After Reddit Partnered with OpenAI
Why are AI bots posting links for Altman's World ID?Documenting Our Decline
Wammityblam
in reply to DocumentingDecline • • •We’ll never know the true extent of the dead internet theory, but I do genuinely wonder what percentage of traffic on the internet is either bots or paid agitators.
Half? 75%? More? Less?
We’ll never know, and nowhere is safe.
And with AI being able to generate fairly convincing images, audio, and videos (at first impression, and getting more and more convincing by the day), it will become harder and harder to tell what is genuine and what is a lie.
Rothe
in reply to Wammityblam • • •Over 50 Percent of the Internet Is Now AI Slop, New Data Finds
Frank Landymore (Futurism)MadMadBunny
in reply to Wammityblam • • •schnurrito
in reply to Wammityblam • • •2006: user generated content is a revolution! We are now exchanging information and ideas directly with each other without needing information gatekeepers like traditional media or paid advertisers or anything like that! The future is gonna be a utopia where the powerful will be challenged at every turn!
2026: a significant percentage of "user generated content" is generated either by AI or people who are being paid to do so for commercial or political reasons... I suppose those are "users" too...
why, humanity, why???? ;____;
Wammityblam
in reply to schnurrito • • •As always, the answer is capitalism
Once the rich knew that they could control what people see on the internet and influence people with it, it was GG.
The rich get richer and gain more control because they control everything
PointyFluff
in reply to DocumentingDecline • • •DocumentingDecline
in reply to PointyFluff • • •Reddit has always had a bot problem but of the more than 50 AI bot accounts explored for this article all became active after Reddit partnered with OpenAI. Every account found that matched this pattern of behavior became active during this period. e.g. Same links posted by them.
Additionally during this period Reddit added terms on AI advertising to their business page and the partnership announcement with OpenAI says they became an advertising partner.