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What in the fresh hell is this? (lemmy.world)
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago

Even better! It posts whatever advertisers want!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

And, does it know how to discern genuine user input from astroturfed marketing copy in disguise?

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I saw a post a few weeks ago about a company's chatbot that had learned from Reddit to answer questions by saying:

Sure, here's a video tutorial on how to do that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ