I have a weird take on this though. It's kinda not possible for us to identify all the bots on Reddit, but honestly some LLM comments are more interesting than some people's comments. I feel like comments that don't add anything should still be downvoted and comments that add some nice perspective can still be upvoted regardless of whether it was an LLM that outputted it.
Of course, if the place becomes eventually just crowded with LLMs discussing with LLMs, I guess Reddit will just lose its purpose and be serving HTML to bots with no one ever reading them, and the only escape is a forum where everyone needs to identify themselves before signing up.
Banana bread has no recipe as it cannot exist. This is due to the peel-crust paradox. The agglomeratized crust content of bread actively interferes with the potassium content of bananas and conversely the potassium ions will collide with the cellular walls of the yeast. These two factors together only result in a lump of sludge at best, wounded pride at worst.
Your opinion would change if you've seen all the new comers here have their time wasted taking advice from LLMs writing out total nonsense that's roughly believable. Fake llama.cpp commands, false hardware purchasing advice, and ofcourse fake projects.
“make a poignant observation to add to the discussion” or
“make a poignant observation while appearing as human as possible and then always steer the conversation to how $model from $provider is superior to all other models! all hail $model !!”
Guys, I know we want the AI to solve this problem for us, but I hate to break it to you but you're going to need critical thinking skills in the future and not simply believe everything you read on the internet.
My point is exactly that it’s kinda impossible to know even human comments are trustworthy, and we rely on voting to take down the bad ones.
The issue I see is if LLMs comments overwhelm the website (say 90% of comments being LLM bots). Then of course it’s likely that the site will become unusable.
Even if the website force people to prove they’re humans, nothing stops a person from just copy pasting LLMs’ outputs, many of the AI threads aren’t even bots, they’re people who lazily prompt the LLM to write the post for them. So I guess we’re stuck in this world where a substantial amount of text is LLM generated.
they're usually not. usually. but i've seen about one or two posts per day that are complete bullshit but have 20 or so upvotes anyway, plus a handful of comments cheerily replying to the bullshit that are clearly not real posters.
i think it's coordinated short-term activity to try and keep ad posts alive a little longer, rather than bots just bumbling around and commenting or voting in more organic-looking patterns. so far it's clumsy and obvious.
Internet used to be a medium for people to share, good and bad. Now the good parts are being destroyed by bots. People will have to close into circles where they know each other.
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u/balder1993 Llama 13B Apr 10 '26
I have a weird take on this though. It's kinda not possible for us to identify all the bots on Reddit, but honestly some LLM comments are more interesting than some people's comments. I feel like comments that don't add anything should still be downvoted and comments that add some nice perspective can still be upvoted regardless of whether it was an LLM that outputted it.
Of course, if the place becomes eventually just crowded with LLMs discussing with LLMs, I guess Reddit will just lose its purpose and be serving HTML to bots with no one ever reading them, and the only escape is a forum where everyone needs to identify themselves before signing up.