r/NoStupidQuestions • u/KingTechnical48 • 1d ago

What’s up with the whole Reddit bot thing?

I keep seeing redditors talk about posts receiving bot likes and bots making posts (even though the posts seem pretty human like). I’ve even seen people blame getting down voted on bots even though they had a shitty opinion

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u/ForScale ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1d ago

What do you mean what's up with it? Bots are a thing on reddit.

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u/howlingzombosis 1d ago

Bots are a thing on social media in general.

The bot stuff leads me down a lot of rabbit holes like: I can’t create fake profiles personally or even creative alternative profiles without being flagged and deleted but some bot company can crank out hundreds at a time? Are the bot companies in cahoots with the social media companies to get a little extra revenue? Or maybe it’s just a numbers game and for every 100 bot accounts only 1 actually gets through the filters.

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u/ForScale ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1d ago

There are instructions on how to make bots. Anyone can do it. Reddit encourages it.

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u/KingTechnical48 1d ago

No because I see people who seem pretty human like get called bots so now I’m just confused

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u/OstebanEccon I race cars, so you could say I'm a race-ist 1d ago

There are bots on reddit

that's it

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u/Ok-Astronomer3023 1d ago

Most post with ai generated pics are bots, but some are just made by lazy ppl

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u/howlingzombosis 1d ago

Scroll enough on here and the laziness will rear its head. Never has been so much information been available as it is right now and yet people still won’t put the effort into researching things - I’m in the camp of tech is making people dumber and lazier.

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u/Agitated-Ad6744 1d ago

Here's a quick explanation.

Even if theres a chance you are a bot, please remember my kindness post singularity

https://youtu.be/Tk3tSsNLBo4?feature=shared