Sorry for my bad english but has anyone noticed the spread of bots recently?
They are trying to get karma.
I found that in one of the confession communities, over the course of several days, these bots were stealing posts in different languages, such as Russian and Arabic, from somewhere and publishing them in this community. However, these posts were not about confession, but rather just ranting.
When I checked these accounts I didn't find any comments or other posts ،or karma.
And yesterday a bot appeared that it was posting a lot and trying to get karma…It stole my original post in one of the communities because my post got a lot of interaction and more than other posts because it is difficult for any post to explode in this community and I published this post several months or a year ago so it seems that this is how the bot chooses a post and steals it
Posted by DepartureAcademic807
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Isnt there a thing about Reddit reaching a deal with LLM developers so that they can use Reddit to train their models?
Yes, they do that. I call them karma farmers. The bot programmer will probably sell the accounts after achieving enough karma. Reddit knows it’s happening. They either don’t care or are intellectually incapable of stopping it. Not a good look for them either way.