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New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion (medium.com)

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

No, all bad online behavior now is “bots.”

At least that’s how people in the comments on lemmy and Reddit label them.

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[+] quo@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

It seems to correlate with the rise in general awareness of LLMs like ChatGPT. It seems like just the threat/possibility of ChatGPT being used has already distorted discourse online.

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[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

I always saw it as someone who only repeats talking points verbatim is essentially a robot. If I can’t tell if you are a human posting, or an automated response is there a meaningful difference?

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[+] quo@feddit.uk 1 point 2 years ago

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[–] MelastSB@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

Shut up, bot!

Edit: Shitty typo

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[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

He'd probably need a strong sphincter muscle to manage that.

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[–] MelastSB@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago

Lol, how did I miss that

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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

No, all bad online behavior now is “bots.”

At least that’s how people in the comments on lemmy and Reddit label them.

I, and others, have distinguish between shills and bots.

Usually people use shilling as an alternative to astroturfing by paid human beings, while bots are just AI/programming posting.

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