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So does every social media website except for niche forums.

Reddit has transitioned into 100% propaganda mode. Every single post and comment is political astroturfing.




Must admit I haven't noticed this yet in /r/emacs.


different kinda politics there.


Yeah, it's even invaded the more obscure subreddits. Some posters try to shoehorn in political commentary even when it doesn't have much to do with the topic. I doubt there are even real humans behind some posts.


> I doubt there are even real humans behind some posts.

The topic of Russian bots pushing all sort of propaganda designed to destabilize western countries is a well known problem. There are already multiple discussions on stunts like blatant sock puppet accounts and poorly-built LLM-powered bots dumping massive volumes of propaganda.

This problem is well established. Until now the answer to this problem was relying on social networks to moderate abusive content and actively fight state actors from totalitarian regimes engaged in what is ultimately warfare against democratic nations. What makes Twitter stand out is how one of these totalitarian regimes ended up compromising a major social network and is using it's leverage to attack other nations with free reign. This is what makes Twitter stand out.


I'd wager it is almost certainly real humans, just not engaging authentically i.e. paid trolls, at least until the cost of generative AI falls bellow troll farms.


If you bother to spend a couple of minutes looking for it, you'll quickly stumble upon a high volume of posts unmasking LLM-powered bots, which even respond to prompts to clear previous prompts, output their own prompts, and even generate content on-demand.


> I doubt there are even real humans behind some posts.

I doubt there are humans behind as much as 40% of some subs.




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