hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

  • mkwarman@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    What do you mean by mentioning SubredditSimulator here? Wasn’t that a GPT experiment made by a random user or was there something more nefarious at play that I completely missed?

    • Lockely@pawb.socialEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      SubredditSimulator was a fun experiment by a random user with increasingly improving realism, training ChatGPT on real comments.

      It also showed Reddit Inc you can fake engagement and community interaction with bots, which are now astroturfing the fuck out of the site.

      • deephurting@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        There’s another sub with GPT in the title, r/subGPT or something. The subreddit simulator always amused me, it was blatantly artificial - the content on this new one made me queasy, it was precisely the kind of one note jibber jabber we’d skim past constantly.