• bitwaba@lemmy.world
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    A lot of the botting is just copy and pasting previous actual human topics and comments though, so they’re not really wrong.

    Actual bot created content is pretty boring, and never “contributes” in a way that would make for a useful Google result. Your Google result may be a bot’s comment, but if that comment is answering a question of some kind there’s a 99% chance the comment was originally written by a human.

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      The content of bots (the desired ones) is at least not banned or removed by anyone. For example, I feel socially excluded by the Reddit and para-Reddit communities because whenever I write something a bit more controversial, it immediately ends up in the trash.

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      copying and pasting a comment is still less genuine, since that promotes stale and outdated information. It can also create the false idea of a “widely held” opinion rather than a single person’s opinion copied a dozen times.

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        promotes stale and outdated information. It can also create the false idea of a “widely held” opinion

        Clue

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        Well, obviously. But I don’t give a shit about that when I just want a solution to a problem.