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I had Gemini train its own replacement for $9

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faidit · 1789659807 · focus · HN ↗
Unfortunately, advertisers are getting smarter and using bots to praise their own products on Reddit. Thanks to training on genuine comments, some models are very good at sounding like a human commenter, and can easily generate a comment history with diverse interests to appear human, making them basically undetectable. So it seems like this method will, at some point, not identify the company with the best knife, but the one with the most ad spend on bot comments.
1. jpadkins · 1789660514 · focus · HN ↗
  who the fuck is using reddit for product recommendations? reddit was astroturfed in like 2015.
  1. chneu · 1789661390 · focus · HN ↗
    If not earlier. Reddit has been highly manipulated since at least 2015.
    I used to buy/sell reddit usernames for astroturfing and it was always hilarious seeing one of my usernames on the front page.

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