To potentially confirm your prejudices, I didn't get creepy PMs from bots but I did get NPCs trying to reply to my 2 year old posts so I deleted the account and it had several thousand something karma lol. What I did get was lots of creepy weirdos trying to start shit with me in the private chat because I posted anti-feminist rants people agreed with and they really, really didn't like that. I think this was back when reddit was still reasonably active though and had a fair mix of leftists and others and hadn't gone into full hive mind territory even though they were clearly setting up for it.
I would put the creepy weirdo e-stalkers in the category of NPCs rather than bots though they may as well be.
Edit: By the way in terms of whether reddit is using advanced tech or not, this is why I rant about machine learning algorithms, this technology has existed for awhile. It's just been utilised in a way to try and mimic human conversation with extremely varied results.
I did get NPCs trying to reply to my 2 year old posts
Here's the kicker: Reddit is still doing this to me on a banned account that I haven't logged into in many years. How am I still receiving comment reply notifications on an account that Reddit told me they permanently banned? I genuinely don't know, and don't care enough to take their obvious bait to figure it out. Those emails get deleted as soon as they show up in my inbox; I refuse to even read them.
Oh, and here's another anecdote that might be of interest. I strongly suspect that they are testing out AI image production. I lurk my local subreddit for news, and, every few days, some random account posts a blurry, potato-quality picture of a common plant or animal and asks for help identifying it. All of these pictures look "off," and are poor quality even by really low budget cell phone standards. I'm not convinced they are real.
Well they've admitted that's what they've started using these sites for it is pretty fascinating though witnessing it in the wild or being on the receiving end of their retarded code. Pretty soon it's going to be spreading to all video sites and streamers are going to get booted for wrong think much more frequently and only those who will carefully toe the line will be allowed and we've already got corporate grown ones happening to a degree with agencies controlling them.
To potentially confirm your prejudices, I didn't get creepy PMs from bots but I did get NPCs trying to reply to my 2 year old posts so I deleted the account and it had several thousand something karma lol. What I did get was lots of creepy weirdos trying to start shit with me in the private chat because I posted anti-feminist rants people agreed with and they really, really didn't like that. I think this was back when reddit was still reasonably active though and had a fair mix of leftists and others and hadn't gone into full hive mind territory even though they were clearly setting up for it.
I would put the creepy weirdo e-stalkers in the category of NPCs rather than bots though they may as well be.
Edit: By the way in terms of whether reddit is using advanced tech or not, this is why I rant about machine learning algorithms, this technology has existed for awhile. It's just been utilised in a way to try and mimic human conversation with extremely varied results.
Here's the kicker: Reddit is still doing this to me on a banned account that I haven't logged into in many years. How am I still receiving comment reply notifications on an account that Reddit told me they permanently banned? I genuinely don't know, and don't care enough to take their obvious bait to figure it out. Those emails get deleted as soon as they show up in my inbox; I refuse to even read them.
Oh, and here's another anecdote that might be of interest. I strongly suspect that they are testing out AI image production. I lurk my local subreddit for news, and, every few days, some random account posts a blurry, potato-quality picture of a common plant or animal and asks for help identifying it. All of these pictures look "off," and are poor quality even by really low budget cell phone standards. I'm not convinced they are real.
Well they've admitted that's what they've started using these sites for it is pretty fascinating though witnessing it in the wild or being on the receiving end of their retarded code. Pretty soon it's going to be spreading to all video sites and streamers are going to get booted for wrong think much more frequently and only those who will carefully toe the line will be allowed and we've already got corporate grown ones happening to a degree with agencies controlling them.