Stumbled on this while researching tablet PCs and clicking on a Reddit “post” from Google results. I take no pride in any part of that sentence.
Stumbled on this while researching tablet PCs and clicking on a Reddit “post” from Google results. I take no pride in any part of that sentence.
This is… silly. But I do wonder how it works. Does it aggregate all responses and look for commonalities? Does it factor in the upvote/downvote counts? And, does it know how to discern genuine user input from astroturfed marketing copy in disguise?
even with upvote counts, it might be upvoted for being a funny joke response
there’s also no way to click on a user’s profile to check if the activity is genuine, or if the user is experienced in the topic they are commenting about
I saw a post a few weeks ago about a company’s chatbot that had learned from Reddit to answer questions by saying:
Even better! It posts whatever advertisers want!
That’s the beauty of it, it lends legitimacy to the astroturfing campaign. That’s a feature, not a bug, in the eyes of folks trying to maximally enshitify and push their shit products anyway.