• 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    what would stop me from making bot accounts that feed each other karma, which gets converted to an etherum backed nft, and then becoming mega rich while burning entire forests down?

    • Lil_Revolitionary [she/her,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      There's already a ton of karma bots that repost popular posts from a year beforehand. increase the profit motive, and it'll be difficult to find human-made posts

      • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        it already is damn near impossible to find human made reddit posts. ive been using that godforsaken site for a decade and the past 3 years have seen me using it less and less and less because of all the bots and algorithmic posting.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        The original business plan of the website was to use bots to make the site look artificially active and popular. It's always been a bot farm run to churn engagement. Once it blew up in popularity, you didn't notice it as much. But now that its increasingly dominated by algorithm-driven ads and marketing campaigns, yeah. The engagement slides as it becomes more and more artificial. But the metrics keep rising, because more and more artificial content is injected into the site.

    • Vampire [any]
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      3 years ago

      Mahcine learning that detects these patterns.

      Reddit's tech team is in an adversarial race against people trying to do the like.

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      3 years ago

      Nothing except the fact that Ethereum will soon be Proof of Stake and will use like 100x less electricity.