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Stumbled across this screenshot. Now, instead of judging people for yourself, the computer can do it for you!!! This will in no way be used negatively by Reddit nor people who are arguing with each other. Original post is here, if anyone still has Reddit maybe go spread the good word of Lemmy and Piefed to these users :P
Amazon uses something similar to summarize product reviews, and it seems fine... But who knows how accurate it is.
(considering amazon reviews are completely dogshit and mostly bought off I'd imagine not very)
This clearly shows that such implementation of AI is a solution that still seeks for the problem. Such summary doesn't add anything helpful. On top of this, since AI is known to hallucinate, one has to check the comments for themselves, making a summary obsolete.
If I was still posting on Reddit, shit like this would immediately prompt me to delete all my stuff
It's helpful in the nominal sense of allowing mods to dismiss people without having to do any work themselves. Which is precisely the problem AI is designed to solve... human beings have to do work and make judgemental calls. People generally do not like doing work if it can be avoided.
Outside of medicine or other data analysis, AI doesn't have much of a use.
Generating bland corporate copy/logos?
I'm curious how stuff like this works. Surely, many people's post histories can't fit into context. So, maybe the LLM keeps some sort of "blackboard" of summaries of posts, and edits it as it goes along? Would be pretty computationally expensive. I suppose another way would be to create embeddings of each post, and do some sort of clustering or something.
The same way that you can look at someone's post history, skim it, and more or less understand what their deal is.
Most users on reddit don't have this diverse set of interests or posts. Most of them post on the same subs and repeat the same types of posts... ad nauseam. Most people, online, aren't much more sophisticated in their language use or POV or anything... than a bot.
Sure, 10 years ago you'd look at someone's post history and it would be all over the place, and they'd be writing detailed and nuaced paragraphics in lots of detail... but that's not what reddit is like anymore, or most of the internet really. God I remember when libertarians actually had decent theoretical argumentation to defend their viewpoints... and now it's just memes and cliche phrases repeated over and over.
Pretty easy for any LLM to parse a person who just incessantly posts about the same stuff over and over. And if it came across someone doing long-form explanatory stuff... it would just ignore that data since that doesn't fit the task LLM is designed to process.
If you want to relive the old times there's a few of us minarchists libertarians that migrated over here. But yeah most of us got banned from /r/libertarian back in 2014. I'm still pretty sure it was a Russian govt backed op. Whole mod team was purged twice. Once all of us troublesome posters who would point out that all the new talking points were antherical to personal liberteries and freedom we were muted it devolved rapidly.
It's all about controlling the narrative.
Anyone who doesn't comply with whatever the narrative is gets banned. Whatever the political ideology is, it devolves into 'true believers' vs everyone else, and the true believers are the ones who have no idea what their ideology really is other than shouting slogans and issuing purity tests on their fellow members.
The thing is the sub used to be a anti echo chamber. Open to all debate daily there would be questions and open discussion about policy and global politics. It was literally a free and open forum. Anyone could post and all were encouraged to debate in a atmosphere similar to a change my view type setup.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/reddit-libertarian-takeover-far-right/
Lol that is some dystopian shit right there.
Fuck reddit. Corporations ruined it.
I was away from Reddit for over two years, and then one of my old accounts was compromised by some pornographer.
I didn’t like that, so I got the account back. Poked around for a little bit after that.
I got banned from /r/worldnews on my first comment there for celebrating the beating of that douche-nozzle known as “Big Balls.”
Fuck em. Didn’t dispute anything, just immediately done posting there again. Reddit is unrecognizable vs where it was in June 2023. I’m pretty sure half the participants are AI; and they’re using AI based personas to drive up their metrics and subsequently their stock price.
it generally only rewards group think and rage bait. like every other algorithmically driven social media platform.
and trolls will report/ban anything that deviates from that as controversial or harmful.
insane
What they're talking about here is a blueprint for stamping out individuality.
Omg, you are such a Monica.
Human personalities can be clustered into which member of the cast of Friends they most resemble.
Fortunately, Friends is so brilliantly written that they managed to capture the entire spectrum of human diversity.
(this is snark. I am totally a Chandler.)
Could you be any more Chandler?
Can we get some more titties on Lemmy so I have zero reasons to go to that crappy site?
https://lemmynsfw.com/ exists, so..
Yeah but it's filled with sellers and their constant engagement bait... And it's missing the hentai artists/animators.
Also on a personal complain most of the content are slim/thin/flat women... I like them with curves and some meat/muscle.
jinx, 4 seconds apart in our reply LOL
you win though, i was too lazy to look for the boobs category :D
This really makes me think the Amish were right after all with regards to modern tech.
I personally wouldn't go that far. But, yeah, we need to de-tech-ify a bit. And I am all for steal the control of the internet back from giant corporations.
it's not tech that is the problem. it's predictive algorithms that push users to passive consumption of media.
The internet was interesting when it was random. algorithms remove randomness. corporations loathe randomness. in the 2000s everyone was going on about how tech/internet was going to allow us this international cultural renaissance by making everything everywhere accessible to everyone...
Remember when netflix and spotify algorithms actually helped you find interesting and new content? I do. But those algorithms didn't promote the right content... so they were changed to promote the 'right' content that benefited their owners most, not the users. Now if i want to find random/new/interesting stuff... I have to manually search for it and know exactly what I'm trying to find... because that type of content is actively suppressed.
the algo driven internet has only been predominantly since the 2010s
Agreed. Engagement driven algorithms are the worst.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Sounds an awful lot like the social credit score China was working on a few years back. Wouldn't be surprised if mods start preemptively banning users based on their AI summaries.