Did you opt in to sending your usage statistics to Google wine you first installed Chrome?
Is there actually proof that they're bots? I checked it out again recently and the comments are kind of suspect... But it's just a weird feeling I have like a bunch of the comments are AI generated just cause the typos they make feel strange. I just shook it off, but if there's actually proof that's what's going on I'd be very interested
I get what you're saying about taking a calculated risk - like going for a bungee jump or paragliding or bouldering. However, the more you read about this particular craft the more you realize how much they ignored highly standard safety procedures and design. So I feel like the people criticizing are less saying "why bungee jump when you could die" and more saying "why would you bungee jump without a cord and pay 250,000 dollars for the privilege."
Deletes don't actually delete, it just sets a flag in the system to not show it so they can restore the comment (apparently this has already happened). Edits actually do overwrite the content of the post in the system and if you actually put readable but irrelevant content they also waste people's time when browsing the site so it makes it less usable (rather than a deleted comment which people will just skip over). Also, if you edit it to be gibberish it makes the data much less attractive to those training AI. Make them have to work to turn it into something monetizeable.
I would tell more people about it but I just don't think it's ready yet for the kind of volume Reddit has.
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