Is This How Reddit Ends?
The site has become a reservoir of humanity on the web. Now it, too, is turning to AI.
No, but thanks for asking. The rabbit hole still goes far further.
Ghostarchive is apparently blocked from The Atlantic, and other archive options aren't friendly to VPNs, so I'm afraid I can't provide an archive link.
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What's to stop that from happening to Lemmy?
The moderator to user ratio on the fediverse is orders of magnitude higher than commercial platforms. Even Lemmy.world (a large, loosely moderated Lemmy instance) has again, orders of magnitude more eyes on its content than reddit.
This means that even if a chatbot gets invented that is impossible to distinguish form a human, mods will more readily be able to tell if it is pushing a narrative/shilling products.
If the lemmy devs implemented AI I'd assume it would be controllable by the instance maintainers. Instances that dont want it should be able to disable it. If thats not an option I'm sure someone would fork it and remove all the AI stuff.
If you have a good AI model, how could you tell?
Welp we're screwed. I guess go back to IRC until the AI invade that too.
