• chairman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    [Serious] I am sorry, but can someone explain like I’m five what this is about?

    Thanks in advance. I pay onise you, I am NOT a Bot. :-)

    • AtomicPurple@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Someone (presumably at Reddit, but there’s no hard proof of that), has recently begun using a large number of dummy accounts and what appears to be ChatGPT to post pro-admin, anti-protest comments across the site, and give them a lot of upvotes. Someone figured this out and posed evidence of it to /r/programming. Shortly after that thread reached the top of /r/programming, the subreddit was abruptly closed by the site admins, which is extremely suspect to say the least.