• random9@lemmy.world
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    I think the fewer number of people, compared to reddit, on Lemmy combined with the fact that it’s not nearly as well known, plays a huge advantage to the quality of the comments. Not that there aren’t people like that here either, but I feel like the more popular a platform, is, the more it gets filled, proportionally, with people trying to make witty, shitty, pointless remarks that are often clickkbaity and avoid actual discussion, all in the interest of just getting more imaginary points.

    Also the process of “enshitification” (not a term I made up, look it up if you hadn’t heard of it) has already started taking place on reddit due to its popularity.

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      1 year ago

      Also the process of “enshitification” has already started taking place on reddit due to its popularity.

      I started using reddit in 2011. Trust me when I say this isn’t a new trend. Reddit’s has been noticeably and actively getting shittier since at least 2015 as it continued to get more and more popular

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        And now they’re going to train AI on that dataset. The intellectual equivalent of a diet consisting of nothing but chicken nuggets.

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          I feel like you’re gonna be able to tell if an AI was overly trained on reddit data.

          Hey Chat XYZ– write me a prompt for my essay about George Washington

          "More WashingDeezNuts! Gottem.

          Came here to say this.

          Edit: wow thanks for the gold kind stranger"