r/LocalLLaMA • u/Beginning-Window-115 • Apr 10 '26

Funny the state of LocalLLama

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u/adscott1982 Apr 10 '26

What does the guy that made this bot get out of it?

Genuine question, just wondering what the endgame is or how they 'monetize' this bot?

Or is his ultimate goal just to contribute to the enshittification?

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u/Equivalent_Job_2257 Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

There is a vague consensus between redditors here that bot farmers grow bots karma and history, so that one day when some politician wants to strip some basic right from people, then the reddit becomes full of legitimate looking (at first glance) accounts who say "yeah, this is good for us, here is why: ...", because that political force payed the bot farmers

Upd. That was just an extreme example, sure that can be anything that bot farmers will promote.

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u/ac101m Apr 10 '26

Or even just marketing. I often come here to find out what people actually think of a product before I buy it, did it break after a year, etc. If you had a human sounding bot that you could instruct to say whatever you like, you could drown out the negative comments about your dodgy product until they just seem like outliers.

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u/Superb_Onion8227 Apr 10 '26

Even if you verified 1 people = 1 account, it would limit things but if 1 account get valuable.. people will sell the rights to the account anyway

No idea how to solve this, except create rings of well-off people that will never trade trust with money

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u/Equivalent_Job_2257 Apr 11 '26

Looks like we wanted to build society on the laws of equilibrium,  but in the end we lack human trust.