Even the comments are starting to feel like AI slop rage bait on there. It’s hard to tell what’s real and it’s by design.
It’s not just Reddit, it’s the entire internet. I used to not believe everything on the internet because people were liars. Nowadays I assume everyone is a bot until proven otherwise. And I honestly hope people have the same assumption about me. With generative AI and LLMs you can’t believe anything anymore. Every form of verification we’ve ever used to determine real people on the internet is completely compromised.
This is all by design so what you read online will be intuitively believed to be false. The largest source of information will no longer be doubted but rather outright ignored. Reducing informational sources so it’s easier to control what’s released to the public. It’s a means to destroy a functional democracy. How can you make informed decisions if whatever you read is fake, paid for opinions, corporate slop, or regurgitated by some llm.
that’s exactly what a bot would say to accrue street cred!
A similar but separate problem is the explosion of news outlets that don’t have information about their writers, funding sources, mission statement, etc.
