most of the time you’ll be talking to a bot there without even realizing. they’re gonna feed you products and ads interwoven into conversations, and the AI can be controlled so its output reflects corporate interests. advertisers are gonna be able to buy access and run campaigns. based on their input, the AI can generate thousands of comments and posts, all to support your corporate agenda.
for example you can set it to hate a public figure and force negative commentary into conversations all over the site. you can set it to praise and recommend your latest product. like when a pharma company has a new pill out, they’ll be able to target self-help subs and flood them with fake anecdotes and user testimony that the new pill solves all your problems and you should check it out.
the only real humans you’ll find there are the shills that run the place, and the poor suckers that fall for the scam.
it’s gonna be a shithole.
To be honest, it feels like reddit has been just talking to bots for a while now anyway.
For the last year or so there’s been those bots that just copy highly upvoted comments and then reply them to random other comments, and people just continue replying to the bot as if it didn’t just say something completely out of the blue.
And about the whole Russia Ukraine thing, there was definitely Russian bots around that would reply to you the moment you badmouthed Russia.
Also, if the fediverse becomes the next big thing, then of course companies are going to move here too, and there’s nothing stopping them making bots and GPT based profiles that just do the same thing here.