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submitted 1 year ago by Maturin to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
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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.

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[-] explodingkitchen@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Maturin 17 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] explodingkitchen@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

I'm thinking AI-generated based on similar past topics.

[-] 1bluepixel@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I've definitely seen this exact tweet long before 2023.

It's bots all the way down.

[-] SanityFM@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Are we bots?

[-] SoPunny@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Beep boop

Fuck, I mean no

[-] SanityFM@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] CalOtsu@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
[-] VoxAdActa@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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-/

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