Is this new to post-blackout reddit is or has it been this way for a while. Top post of r/all is a tweet from like 2 years ago about a “current event” that no one has talked about since then and 100% of the comments are talking about this like this topic is the focus of today’s or any recent time’s 24 hour news cycle. Nearly 30K upvotes. 100 comments. Feels like ai/bot cosplaying what an actual hot reddit post would be like but in a world without people.
A little searching with DuckDuckGo reveals that this tweet was made in January 2023. Not sure whether it’s also bot-vomited from a previous instance of the same remark. It’s telling that the r/all post doesn’t link to the tweet or give a date.
ETA a link to the tweet in question: https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1617333819660718081
I’ve definitely seen this exact tweet long before 2023.
It’s bots all the way down.
Are we bots?
Beep boop
Fuck, I mean no
Correct! The flower would also have been acceptable.
I kid, but i do wonder whether bots will use discussions about bots to seed their bot conversations. Can a large language model have an existential crisis?
https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1617333819660718081
The tweet was from Jan 22, 2023
But this article is from 2021, along with all the other ones I found about the vaccine causing “shaking”.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/jan/20/shaking-covid-vaccine-side-effect-videos-and-what-/
Yeah, I’m wondering if the chorus of comments are also harvested from the various prior threads to make it look like what real conversations would be about.
I’m thinking AI-generated based on similar past topics.