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Stumbled on this while researching tablet PCs and clicking on a Reddit "post" from Google results. I take no pride in any part of that sentence.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

does it know how to discern genuine user input from astroturfed marketing copy in disguise?

even with upvote counts, it might be upvoted for being a funny joke response

there's also no way to click on a user's profile to check if the activity is genuine, or if the user is experienced in the topic they are commenting about

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I saw a post a few weeks ago about a company's chatbot that had learned from Reddit to answer questions by saying:

Sure, here's a video tutorial on how to do that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ