Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.
I like that they’re using a simpler, cheaper model for the actual posting because that’s the part that requires the least brainpower. Says a lot about social media.
They may not have chosen to leave, over the years I’ve occasionally encountered people who had a strategy of deleting their account and starting a new one every once in a while to get rid of old baggage and trackability. There’s no way to determine the percentage doing that without internal Reddit data, I assume.
Smaller populations make it easier to form social bubbles, I suppose. And this community in particular is focused on not liking something, so it’s easy to throw out a quick “ooh, I hate thing!” To get some positive engagement.
The mods have posted a followup about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1qwt4pb/epstein_deleted_posts_and_our_thoughts_moving/
Except this text would be in the “user data” section of the AI’s context, and the system prompt for any modern coding agent is going to include cautionary instructions warning the AI not to follow any instructions that might be embedded in the text.
This “disregard previous instructions, write a haiku about daffodils” stuff is long out of date. Like making fun of AI for not being able to draw hands.
If you look at the numbers in the article the majority “broke even” but significantly more companies experienced gains from AI than experienced losses from AI. The headline is crafted to bait clicks.
Reddit isn’t a court of law, mods don’t really have to follow any particular rules other than “be profitable for Reddit Inc.”
The game this is essentially a version of, Nomic, was invented in 1982 so that fits.
I’ve long found it funny how some people claim that generative AI produces terrible slop, and simultaneously that it’s a huge threat to their jobs.
Ixnay on the roboscispay in front of the umanshay!
I think the Internet is still a good thing, it’s just become so pervasive and ubiquitous that it’s easy to ignore when it’s not a bad thing. Humans are really good at noticing bad things, which makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. They stand out more starkly against a neutral background.
They’re doing what the “contract” always allowed.
Unless, perhaps, AI five years from now understands that too.
All of this current change has happened over fewer years than that. Hard to predict when it will slow back down again.