alt Hacker NewsI have a theory that there are far fewer genuine users on Reddit at this point than you'd expect.
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dspillett • today at 2:05 AM
Going back to its roots: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/v8xgq/watch...
calmworm • today at 1:35 AM
Reddit may be the most manipulated social media there is.
The incentives to create fake engagement to satisfy their actual users who want discussion are quite clear. Doing this also gives reddit an advantage when monetizing their data. Scrape posts & comments for free, and you won't know which are LLM-generated and which at least have a human in the loop (but the human still may use an LLM, so this is where fingerprinting comes in). Perfect for incentivising the ai labs / other consumers of reddit data to pay up for an official feed.