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Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed

#For sale: Ads that look like legit Reddit user posts

"We highly recommend only mentioning the brand name of your product since mentioning links in posts makes the post more likely to be reported as spam and hidden. We find that humans don't usually type out full URLs in natural conversation and plus, most Internet users are happy to do a quick Google Search," ReplyGuy's website reads.

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The full url written out is a good clue, but beyond that, AI sounds off-puttingly positive because it's always trying to be as inoffensive and appealing to everyone as possible.

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Every commercial model has a positivity bias baked in, it makes it hard to use any of them as a cowriter because your villains all end up really nice and accommodating. Finetuning can break this but sometimes it creeps back in. Very annoying.

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's what I hate about it the most. Why can't it tell me I'm a fucking idiot sometimes?

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

It would be much harder to tell it apart from real people that way!

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 9 points 6 months ago

AI sounds off-puttingly positive because it’s always trying to be as inoffensive and appealing to everyone as possible.

And also because people trying to cheer you up adopt a casual tone that is completely absent here, so it sounds as fake as corporate "apologies".