On: Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by...

[tensor]

A lot of comments here about AI, but if you actually looked at the source material you'd see that what is shown is a verbatim copy of a thread of user comments using new accounts. This is not an example of an LLM generating AI content, it's a blatant copy of human content with attribution removed.

I guess their license allows them to do this, but wow.

[gruez → tensor]

>I guess their license allows them to do this, but wow.

Reddit's terms says:

>You retain any ownership rights you have in Your Content, but you grant Reddit the following license to use that Content: [...]

Users only grant reddit to repost their comment, not anyone else. Are you claiming that reddit themselves are doing the reposting?

[tensor → gruez]

I don't know who is doing the reposting, but the only party that seems to benefit from that sort of thing would be reddit. Why would a 3rd party do that?

[gruez → tensor]

As other people mentioned above, karma farming for bot accounts. Reddit probably benefits as well, just like any other social network doesn't want to clamp down too hard on bot activity.