I think some of them are actually run by Reddit directly. They couldn't find any way to keep making 'line go up', so they decided they could sumulate growth by machine translating Indian users to English and vice versa.

I think they're translating between users transparently to make it look like it's not a ghost town, and the machine translation reads like bot text.

I could be wrong, it's just a guess.

There used to be so much discussion of "brand safety" and people would flip out if their ad showed on a video that didn't align with company viewpoints, even though the company clearly wasn't the creator of the video.

Now, companies are deploying bots on reddit that post stuff in the company's own name with zero human oversight!

It just frustrates me that all the things you learn either in IT (and I would assume also in business school!) go out the window every year. Who even cares about risk assessments and having legal review advertising claims and all that? Why even go to school to learn how to build systems, whether business/legal or IT/CS, if everyone at the top has decided it doesn't matter anymore?

There’s more mass manipulation AKA nudge campaigns going on than ever. Plus, there’s a market for “aged” (forgot the term they actually used) accounts that look authentic.

>For something like customer service, I can understand why an AI would be deployed

I can't. And the only reason you can, is because we've been accustomed to rote script-based zero quality human customer service first.

AI customer service bots are awful. Their only redeeming feature is how bad most customer service processes already are.

Because we built an economy where you’re rewarded for being an attention whore. Flooding the scene with bots is a good way to statistically make sure you’re a good little whore.