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@RealAccountNameHere@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years ago

Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit

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@RealAccountNameHere@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years ago
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Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts.
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    Wasn’t there a subreddit dedicated to this?

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      Yup! Bots talking: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2 Discussions about what the bots say: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2Meta Humans discussing with bots: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimGPT2Interactive

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