Off My Chest
RULES:
I am looking for mods!
1. The "good" part of our community means we are pro-empathy and anti-harassment. However, we don't intend to make this a "safe space" where everyone has to be a saint. Sh*t happens, and life is messy. That's why we get things off our chests.
2. Bigotry is not allowed. That includes racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and religiophobia. (If you want to vent about religion, that's fine; but religion is not inherently evil.)
3. Frustrated, venting, or angry posts are still welcome.
4. Posts and comments that bait, threaten, or incite harassment are not allowed.
5. If anyone offers mental, medical, or professional advice here, please remember to take it with a grain of salt. Seek out real professionals if needed.
6. Please put NSFW behind NSFW tags.
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When Reddit started, Spez and Aaron made "sock puppet" accounts to make the site seem more active than it was, because you have to have what looks like an active user base to attract more users.
Now, after Reddit has gone public, they need the appearance of lots of users to attract advertising dollars and keep their stock price high, and there's no need to operate sock puppets by hand anymore because of LLMs - they can be the sock puppets, and if you have enough of them acting human enough, it doesn't even matter if some people realise or if one gets called out as a bot.
This also has the extremely useful benefit of steering society slowly towards the ideology of the billionaire, by having those bots normalise hate in the tsunami if messages they post.
I think the account you interacted with was an LLM, not even a real troll.