After watching Reddit's OpenAI and Anthropic communities, Sam Altman thinks social media cannot be trusted. And bots are to blame.

bots are making social media feel ‘fake’

Accurate

The race toward efficiency has left behind authenticity. That's okay, it just needs to be addressed. Glad someone in Sam's position is able to peer over their shoulder to see what's happening as the world adopts AI at a million miles an hour. Credit to him for recognizing this.

This left Altman wondering how many of those posts were from real humans.

Not even the network itself knows...scary stuff!

While we don’t know how many Reddit posts are written by bots, or are fictional accounts by humans using LLMs, it is likely a substantial number.

Clarification

Imagine there being a 680 million people a month that consume content from entirely anonymous profiles. How many decisions are made from this? Millions. This needs to improve.

Open

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Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel ‘fake’