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The communities like AITAH and relationships on reddit are completely cooked. There is so much AI nonsense and as noted, people completely eat it up.
AITAH has been mostly made up rage bait stories long time before AI nonsense. There’s nothing that generates more engagement than someone being wrong on the internet.
The difference now is that the rage bait has become automated.
AITAH for pranking my gf by putting a plastic bag over her head?
So I put a plastic bag over my gf's head as a joke. She flailed around and punched me in the face. Then she ran off somewhere, looking mad. Why can't she take a harmless prank? Where has humor gone these days?
The title is usually a bait and switch to get you into the comments.
AITAH for shoving a small child?
There was a bus about to hit them and I saved their life. Their mother cursed me out because the kid got a skinned knee. Half my family thinks I need to apologize. They're blowing up my phone.
I've noticed that on almost every front-page AITAH-style post for many, many years. It makes sense now.
This isn't particularly noteworthy or concerning, imo. These two communities are probably the least likely to care about authenticity, and also best suited for a system that's only real success is spinning moderately coherent fictions. They have and will always be most interested in drama, which is easy to fabricate.
The real danger of these systems is shaping public discourse by sheer volume of noise. They can make any opinion seem overwhelmingly supported, or tear apart opposition with distractions and infighting. And they do it with a single-minded focus spread across thousands of voices.
Remember all the Reality Shows (TM) that took over because they had no scripting and relatively tiny production crews? They took over because they were cheap.
Looks like AI is about to lower that bar yet again.
Those quickly became scripted and fake reality too, if any of them were ever even not that.
They were always badly scripted.
Sure , of course those subs don’t serve any real purpose besides entertainment. The effects of AI making up stories could be to subtly confuse people about how others think and make decisions at most. Though of course it’s useless to give advice to an AI OP, thousands of people still read and discuss what people write. Who knows, the AI stories could even seem less fake than fictional stories.
Lemmy is cooked too.
I am AI
Behold my genius!
There are two Rs in Strawberry!
No, but seriously, you're dead right. Shit is unnerving.
I mean, there are two Rs in "strawberry."
There's also three Rs...but who's counting?
Not me. I'm gay and one of the ones who can't do math
Since when has newton been gay?
Better question is: when was he straight?
Since he invented math which is also gay
But also fake.
Basically the "reality TV" of Internet forums. Should come as no surprise, even human made stories are usually fake.