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What's the deal with the bot accounts that make gibberish comments every 5-10 minutes? They invade every top post in big subs. Usually they're shadow banned already, but there's often a few new ones on every top post. Any idea what their purpose is? Is it even worth banning them or removing the comments?
I saw this one[1] (/u/ -Listening) yesterday and the accounts profile says:
Simply a test for a larger purpose. Once we become predictable, we become vulnerable
Is that supposed to be a message to us? Lol. Or maybe whoever sold the account had that in there and I'm reading into it too much? Assuming it was sold, maybe not.
Comment by abrownn at 09/04/2020 at 05:59 UTC
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Howdy stranger. Those are markov bots run by one Turkish CompSci student. There are ~50 or so (I keep a running list) and we block them via /u/BotDefense for those subs that have the bot modded.
Comment by MFA_Nay at 09/04/2020 at 03:29 UTC
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Could be to farm karma and then sell the account on.
Or could be someone just making and testing a bot. Since Reddit has an open API a lot of comp sci students, coders and similar use the site as a playground for bot projects or portfolio.
Comment by Aestheticd at 09/04/2020 at 06:10 UTC
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you should look up GPT2. Reddit has been pretty bad since 2015. Microsoft and AI companies have been using Reddit as sort of a training ground making us lab rats for bots. check it out. Don’t listen to the admins.