Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.
  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    2 months ago

    That’s why I rely on Lemmy for my information about . . . um . . about . . .

    Well. Owls. I guess.

    And dull things.

    💪

      • Newuser@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        Agree i got banned on reddit and have create new account every once in a while then had to fight shadow ban , I wouldn’t think twice before switching but most communities that I follow specially local once are basically non existent only the super popular or some niches with technically sound user base were able to shift rest all stayed at reddit

        • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          I was a terminal redditors for over a decade and that last year or two I was getting site-wide bans at an accelerating rate. I’m off there to avoid a permaban and I’ll only post there if I need a question answered no other way.

          I’ve been on Lemmy for 19 days so far and feel like it scratches whatever pseudo-social itch Reddit scratched before; even though the communities aren’t as niche, the community and moderation isn’t so consistently obnoxious.

      • msage@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        It’s just inertia, nothing else.

        Make your own community, start posting, promote it, and people will cum.

          • msage@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Dying only because people are giving up.

            It’s not easy to set up brave new worlds. It requires time, unfortunately.

            However, unless we invest in it, it’s never going to happen.

  • fubarx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    There’s always been a short distance between SEO and manufactured opinion.

  • Miller@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    The tragedy of this is the tragedy of our age and that is if people and companies of people put as much effort into being good as they did into trying to appear good then they would actually be good.

  • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    I got the new fitbit air, it came with 3 months of “AI coach”. To give it a try, I asked it how it detected my stationary bike ride, with only a sensor on my wrist.

    It gave me a confident answer about vibrations, pulse, etc. I checked the linked source - it was a years old reddit conversastion about another fitbit watch, where comments were guessing about the automatic detection of workout types.

    I turned off the AI feature.

  • magnue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    I remember once I signed up to one of those things where you rank / select AI responses to various questions (i forget what it’s called it was basically a scam anyway). The last question was something specific about a world of warcraft item or something. I’ve never played the game so I googled it and clicked on the first Reddit answer.

    Someone had asked the exact question being asked to me and the top response was something like "do the damn (aiRankingThing) yourself. And then there were loads of botted responses giving intentionally false answers etc.

    Kind of realised then how easy it is to create complete lies on places like Reddit.

    Also upvotes / downvotes are very easy and cheap to buy. You can change the sentiment of an entire thread for $10.

    • Newuser@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      And stupid reddit is hell bent on stopping me from using reddit for one upvote i have to my post using alt

  • tidderuuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    I’ve been doing my part by telling a believable lie when people ask questions and then if anyone doubts me I insult them.

    The day AI search responds to a users reply of doubting the results with something like “You are a fucking idiot” I’ll know my efforts were worth it.

  • eleitl@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    As Reddit is mostly idiots and slop now, it’s a tainted source of training data.

  • criticon@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    The few times I asked something to gemini it gave some bs response like "one Reddit user claimed… "

  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    All I do on reddit is post my “performance art”, have fun menacing dorks and on extremely rare occasions offer helpful advice

    If I’m providing usable data, then either their algorithm has failed miserably, or I have