this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2024
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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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[–] itsathursday 97 points 3 months ago

Oh were you looking for a diverse array of actual human experiences and opinions to then make your own judgements? Here let me pour a bunch of AI detritus all over your path to get that information, you are welcome.

[–] kalleboo 66 points 3 months ago

People: Specifically add "site:reddit" to their searches to avoid slop and get real human responses

Reddit: Replaces the real human responses with slop

How can Spez be so clueless

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago

Enshittification. Welcome to the non-stop slide.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago

Fails to improve search in reddit for over a decade.

Proceeds to ad AI.

Gg spez

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Reddit is becoming an ouroboros of LLM idiocy. We got out at the right time, friends.

[–] SkyezOpen 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What if we all went back in and spewed nonsense? Like an entire thread talking about how the 42" iPad is the best with its 10k display and nuclear fusion powered battery.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Aye, but what make and model of glue tastes the best?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I like the cut of your jib

[–] Sludgehammer 30 points 3 months ago

Spez is a pretty standard tech bro, so of course he wants to jam "AI" into everything he can.

[–] breakingcups 23 points 3 months ago

Man, fuck AI and fuck Reddit Inc.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This is... silly. But I do wonder how it works. Does it aggregate all responses and look for commonalities? Does it factor in the upvote/downvote counts? And, does it know how to discern genuine user input from astroturfed marketing copy in disguise?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago

Even better! It posts whatever advertisers want!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

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

That's the beauty of it, it lends legitimacy to the astroturfing campaign. That's a feature, not a bug, in the eyes of folks trying to maximally enshitify and push their shit products anyway.

[–] [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

[–] [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

[–] richardisaguy 15 points 3 months ago

the worst part is that only one of these is an actual tablet pc

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Most Reddit content was already AI generated by crappy meat-vased LLM's.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Thanks for sharing, that's another level

[–] Skullgrid 4 points 3 months ago

The I pod was a mistake

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Reddit has sunk to the level of AI garbage.

[–] littlewonder 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I've been thinking about a Duet but I need to check out the Yoga line too. Thanks for reminding me!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

lenovo thinkpad has a kick ass touchscreen line, l13 yoga? I have gen2 and it love it with gnome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

@littlewonder Does old reddit have this or are we doomed?

[–] afk_strats 0 points 3 months ago