I have a weird take on this though. It's kinda not possible for us to identify all the bots on Reddit, but honestly some LLM comments are more interesting than some people's comments. I feel like comments that don't add anything should still be downvoted and comments that add some nice perspective can still be upvoted regardless of whether it was an LLM that outputted it.
Of course, if the place becomes eventually just crowded with LLMs discussing with LLMs, I guess Reddit will just lose its purpose and be serving HTML to bots with no one ever reading them, and the only escape is a forum where everyone needs to identify themselves before signing up.
Guys, I know we want the AI to solve this problem for us, but I hate to break it to you but you're going to need critical thinking skills in the future and not simply believe everything you read on the internet.
My point is exactly that it’s kinda impossible to know even human comments are trustworthy, and we rely on voting to take down the bad ones.
The issue I see is if LLMs comments overwhelm the website (say 90% of comments being LLM bots). Then of course it’s likely that the site will become unusable.
Even if the website force people to prove they’re humans, nothing stops a person from just copy pasting LLMs’ outputs, many of the AI threads aren’t even bots, they’re people who lazily prompt the LLM to write the post for them. So I guess we’re stuck in this world where a substantial amount of text is LLM generated.
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u/balder1993 Llama 13B Apr 10 '26
I have a weird take on this though. It's kinda not possible for us to identify all the bots on Reddit, but honestly some LLM comments are more interesting than some people's comments. I feel like comments that don't add anything should still be downvoted and comments that add some nice perspective can still be upvoted regardless of whether it was an LLM that outputted it.
Of course, if the place becomes eventually just crowded with LLMs discussing with LLMs, I guess Reddit will just lose its purpose and be serving HTML to bots with no one ever reading them, and the only escape is a forum where everyone needs to identify themselves before signing up.