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Has Reddit’s traffic really quadrupled in 6 months? (www.bandt.com.au)

submitted 4 months ago by DisOne@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?

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[-] Perfide@reddthat.com 96 points 4 months ago

As someone who still semi-frequents reddit, it's mostly bots, more and more of which are clearly using some form of ChatGPT or another LLM. It's actually kinda absurd, I've seen many a comment chains where it's just different bots replying to each other, both pretending to be real people.

[-] anarchost@lemm.ee 45 points 4 months ago

If bots actually do start frequenting Reddit, and they get hard to detect, the AI content generation will start poisoning itself. Isn't that cool?

[-] emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 months ago

For me, the cool part is that the vast majority of people can't tell anything has changed.

Also, we can be rather poisonous ourselves.

[-] ninja@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

Before I migrated the bots were doing quite well by taking old posts and rewording them into new ones. I only started tracking them when I noticed one posting about a months old event as if it had just happened.

[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

I must say I've seen in increase of conversations on Reddit that seem like everyone involved has severe lead poisoning.

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 months ago

Nah, it's always been like that.

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