[dontupvoteme]

this is about the time that i expect sites to begin returning intentionally corrupt/incorrect/perhaps outright garbage (subtle or not, probably better subtle so they don't realize it until it's far too late) data in order to intentionally poison enemy wellscraping. where "ethics" dissolve into the inherent raw cannibalistic laws of capitalist ventures.

then you can sell them back the TBs they scraped at a 1000x markup for the real data. or attempt to watermark it so you can prove their illegal(?) usage of your services in their training.

[KeplerBoy]

You might be right. What a dystopian future that will be. Make a few requests too many and the webserver might think you're scraping data so it gaslights you into reading bullshit.

[dmix]

Is this sarcasm? I can’t tell.

[KeplerBoy]

It's not. The internet will be crazy once compute will be cheap enough to slightly modify all displayed content slightly to suit your personal user profile.

[dmix]

So you think Reddit is going to replace their actual content… with very believable generated text? And that’s going to fool people at scale? How does that help Reddit (or other org) combat bots? You can just put garbage text that seems real but has nothing to do with todays news (or politics or science).

I’m really struggling to understand how you think this is going to work and result in harm.

This assumes both the site and the reader are really dumb.

[sebzim4500]

Maybe they've been doing that for years and that's why all the advice subreddits turned into creative writing subreddits.