For those of us that can’t open the screenshot and zoom:
Just so you guys are aware, the point of those bots is they do the comment repost and once they get upvoted they edit their comment to provide links to a fake subreddit that contains links to Trojans/phishing software. It becomes wack a mole because when one account gets banned for malicious links, the runner has others to either edit their comment or start the next post.
The con they run is kind of complicated and they’ve been doing it for over a year.
Thanks for letting me know I’m not crazy for getting mad deja vu reading through big comment chains recently. I wonder if this is a 3rd party karma farming/account selling operation or if Reddit is trying to make itself seem more populated.
Possibly both
Yeah, could be. Being complicit in allowing third parties to do this gives an easy way to recycle content while still providing plausible(ish) deniability. Because these are exact copies, it would be pretty easy for Reddit to detect and ban these bots if they wanted to.
It’s not about zooming. I zoomed in and you still can’t read the first image, because the image isn’t high quality enough. I am guessing it got compressed when you uploaded it to the image website. Stop being condescending when you’re the one who can’t upload a readable image.
There are 4 total images. If you can’t be bothered, just downvote and leave :).
I know.
The problem is you didn’t post that at first and instead of going “oh I made a mistake” you instead decided to claim other people were at fault and be a condescending little arsehole saying stuff like “for those who can’t screenshot and zoom” when it’s literally not possible because you don’t understand how digital images work and uploaded at too low a resolution and bitrate. Fucking wanker
The original post contained “For those of us that can’t open the screenshot and zoom:” and the 1st and only edit changed the title. But sure.
And it’s not really readable. Just take the L and use higher quality in the future.
Not only am I not reading that. I couldn’t even if I wanted to. It’s compressed into blurriness.
There are 3 additional, smaller/better resolutions photos on this post. But PLEASE, let me spoon feed you.
If you were to SKIM (dear god please don’t read ALL of this text), do you notice anything about the right picture that is the same as the picture on the left?
This is still compressed to dog shit. But thanks for spoon feeding me from a place I don’t go to anymore and ruining my eyes at the same time.
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Can you provide links to the Reddit posts in the screenshots? I found the post on the right, but I couldn’t find the post on the left. If it was deleted, then it could be available in an archive.
Here you dorks go!
It seems a lot of these accounts are being banned, because this post garnered a lot of attention: https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/16zz0gl/late_stage_reddit_bots_talking_to_each_other/
Edit: Format + Cleaned tracking links
Perfect –– thank you!
the future of the Internet will be 99% bots arguing with each other. AI is already taking over
Well, they are doing a great job imitating us. Lemmy has really increased in the arguing/negativity as well.
They’re taking out jobs!
And Lemmy is mostly bots reposting content from Reddit coming from bots.
It’s all bots.
To shreds you say?
Just as I said with my other comment. Some of the consumers came here, and they want to be fed, so the bot-makers send bots to take content from Reddit.
Why can’t they be cool cartoon robots, like Bender or XJ9 from Nickelodeon?
“We’ll make our own social media! With black jack and hookers!”
Here here
You and me? Bots.
I’m fact it’s bots all the way down.
I wish I was a bot. Stupid fragile meat body…
Me too, fellow meat bag!
I’m not a bot.
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botland ._.
I’m not a bot. How do I prove that? Titty cum and shit dildos. Bots won’t say that.
One just did tho.
I’m gonna need some explanation and annotation my man I’m not reading all that
On the right is a very popular post, on the left is the exact same post from very recently.
The left contains the exact same content, by about 10 different bot accounts w/ one another.
Hmmm okay, fascinating. I imagine this has taken off a lot more since LLM AI started gaining traction.
Very interesting, good post
What does this have to do with LLMs? It’s just copying.
What does Linus Lech Mips have to do with it?
Folks getting paid by “AI” companies will hate my saying this, but so are LLMs.
You don’t actually need to read it, just skim through and notice all the user names. It’s all copy pasted and all the user names are different
It’s proving that tons of comments, even in long chains, are bots reposting
also word word number
That is the default for any new Reddit account since I don’t know when.
So to me it looks like the post with all the upvotes is the original, and the other one is a copy with alt accounts mimicking every single comment. Other than the upvotes, most of those accounts have some arbitrary number tacked onto the end of their username.
Other than the upvotes, most of those accounts have some arbitrary number tacked onto the end of their username.
It’s not a useful distinction for determining whether someone is human or a bot. Reddit began suggesting usernames a few years ago and they all look like Randomword-Randomword-Randomnumber. I’ve read comment chains in the past where newer Reddit users were even unaware that they could choose their own account name. There just seems to be a new generation of people who can’t even be assed to read the signup prompts and just keep clicking “OK” until they have a brand new Reddit account.
So, what do you’re saying is that some click bots are made from flesh.
If people are too stupid to read signup prompts, they may as well be considered bots for all intents and purposes
if you need an explanation, you are also a bot by default
Beep boop beep beep
you got brains… yes you have…
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That’s what the consumers want - they want to read entertaining content with no contribution of their own. The will leave when the content gets too repetitive (if it ever does). The just like being fed.
Reddit are just bots? That explains why all the posts that start with “BWD…” are false advertising.
And Lemmy is almost entirely memes once you leave your subscriptions and venture into the “all” category.
The rest is a combination of politics and bitching about Reddit.
My all is mostly bots posting articles with a comment saying screw, whoever or whatever it is about with 50 upvotes. (If there’s any activity). And if you want to activate any thread just say something that would piss off a “woke” helicopter parent.
