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Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments (www.engadget.com)
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[โ€“] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To me it was kind of obvious. There were a bunch of accounts that would comment these weird sentences and all of them had variants of JohnSmith1234 as their username. Part of the reason I left tbh.

[โ€“] 9point6@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago

I was gonna say, anyone with half a brain who has poked their head into Reddit over the past year or two will have seen a shitload of obvious bots in the comments.