The 2025 Superman movie hits it pretty hard with Lex Luthor’s “monkey bots.”
Considering that Blizzard had to mass-ban thousands of WoW gold farmers back in 2005, it should be no surprise whatsoever that all kinds of commercial and political “value” are being “farmed” in every major internet forum today, using every kind of cheap labor available.
How many of these trolls are now using AI to auto-generate their content?
I’m doing my part! (Jk, I got banned from Reddit for sharing a Luigi meme and mentioning that historically when things are this bad, people resort to violence)
I honestly can’t stand Reddit since I can’t use Apollo anymore. The official app makes my feed like 40% adds and “suggestions,” so I just stopped using it. Pretty much the only way I see anything on Reddit now is the RDX app, and you can’t post or comment.
I’ve never used a Reddit app - just the web interfaces, almost always old.reddit.com these days. I see more like 4% advertisement, but it does vary by which sub-reddits I view. Doesn’t change the number of trolls whatsoever, but they also vary a lot depending on which sub-reddits you are in, typically the more popular, the more it is overrun with trolls.
I’d be surprised if it was only 15%
I don’t think we know what the actual figure is because this blog post ostensibly fabricates this alleged 2020 study.
Edit: But of course this post is taking off anyway because Lemmy users are soooo much more discerning than those dumbass Reddit users.
Yeah. It’s probably corporate trolls manipulating public opinion.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a corporate troll manipulating public opinion.
A corporate troll manipulating the public opinion by claiming corporate trolls were manipulating public opinion, that is.
The headline also does not say the same thing that the post claims!
Headline: “15% of content” --> every 6th or 7th post or comment is a corporate troll
Article: “15% of subreddits contain” --> the vast majority of subreddits contain no troll content
Actual study: [file not found]
I also cannot find any Pew research study resembling the one described. The link is a 2017 report that doesn’t mention reddit.
15% of reddit is probably political, the other 85% are niche subreddits.
You think corpo content is limited to political subs?
r/SFWimaginarywerewolves
old.reddit.com/r/SubsIFellFor
You’re welcome. :)
The other 85% is non-corporate trolls trying to manipulate public opinion
The 2025 Superman movie hits it pretty hard with Lex Luthor’s “monkey bots.”
Considering that Blizzard had to mass-ban thousands of WoW gold farmers back in 2005, it should be no surprise whatsoever that all kinds of commercial and political “value” are being “farmed” in every major internet forum today, using every kind of cheap labor available.
How many of these trolls are now using AI to auto-generate their content?
Worse. State actors to suppress the truth and push their narrative.
Better. Cat people pushing their narrative making me want a cat.
Litter boxes in classrooms confirmed!
You need a cat.
I’m doing my part! (Jk, I got banned from Reddit for sharing a Luigi meme and mentioning that historically when things are this bad, people resort to violence)
I honestly can’t stand Reddit since I can’t use Apollo anymore. The official app makes my feed like 40% adds and “suggestions,” so I just stopped using it. Pretty much the only way I see anything on Reddit now is the RDX app, and you can’t post or comment.
I’ve never used a Reddit app - just the web interfaces, almost always old.reddit.com these days. I see more like 4% advertisement, but it does vary by which sub-reddits I view. Doesn’t change the number of trolls whatsoever, but they also vary a lot depending on which sub-reddits you are in, typically the more popular, the more it is overrun with trolls.
Yeah, I don’t understand why someone would want or need to use an app for Reddit. Reddit is a website, just use a browser.
If you’re on mobile, use “desktop mode” if the mobile site starts giving you lip. Or just pre-emptively switch to it.
Nah. It’s 10% non corporate trolls. The rest is all bots.