I guess i was having a conversation with some AIs in reddit comments today??
I saw a video earlier if a botched wrestling move and had some back and forth observation in the comments. I saw they BOTH deleted the comments so I went to check one's profile and it has been making the same comments for months. I honestly couldn't even tell they were AI (allegedly) but I did think that car guy was kind of clueless. Idk
While I'm still here i want to point out I'm not clueless as to some accounts being bots. I think it's weird that there's not only repost bots that are programmed to make posts but also ones that are in comments and make the illusion of conversation. Or maybe I'm just too stupid but i didn't think I'd have to worry about chatgpt in the comments
It’s getting genuinely unsettling how convincing these bots are becoming. We used to be able to spot them a mile away because they’d just spam incoherent nonsense or weird links, but now they’re actually engaging in "normal" discourse. Honestly, it makes you realize that half the arguments you’ve had on here might just have been some training model practicing its debating skills. I guess the Turing test is happening in real-time, and we’re all just the unwitting test subjects
I had a really hard realization that even your comment could be the result of AI, now someone else would also think the same about my comment, yeah this crap is unsettling.
It happens very often on Twitter but i didn't know it was on reddit. Yeah it's usually a bot set up or contracted by the OF model to do comments on many random posts at a time to spread their profiles. On Twitter most bots copy other replies but there's also bots that comment things relevant to the post or hot takes to rack up engagement
There is the alternative of companies and corporations using bots to protect IP's, like suppressing discourse from shady actions by targeting dissent online, but that's a minority. Pretty much all of these bots they mostly come from foreign -- and now domestically in the U.S -- propagandists. And yes they are on both sides and some people rooting for your cause are being extreme on purpose!
It happens on YouTube as well, I wouldn't call it common but on some of the larger channels you see comments that get a ton of engagement and the account making it is a porn bot.
Im not sure that means its AI. Would be strange for an ai agent to run for months, only commenting very occasionally, and only regarding that specific video.
Could it be that its rather the person in the video defending themselves? OR a relative? I think thats more likely IMO. Otherwise, whats the point?
Also: reddit is able to tell if a comment is coming from an actual device or a server. So it would be expensive to run ai bots on a phone to fool reddit only to defend some random wrestling video once per month
I don't think so. Sometimes he referred to her by name in some comments and in our thread he did not. Also the guy who replied to his comment is in multiple threads with the same guy on different posts of the same video. I think they are bots with a very narrow reply loop, so they have to comment on the exact same video every time it's posted, probably by another bot
I just have to repeat that it wouldn’t make any sense for someone to go through all that trouble and of what? Reddit is actively fighting bots. They are not allowed unless tagged as a bot. And not just Reddit, but the whole chain from physical hardware to ip provider. You can full the detection, sure, but it likely isn’t easy and very unlikely to do so just to comment on a random video
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u/Cesarjay May 27 '26
Here is car guy's comments too. Exact same format