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Is this new to post-blackout reddit is or has it been this way for a while. Top post of r/all is a tweet from like 2 years ago about a "current event" that no one has talked about since then and 100% of the comments are talking about this like this topic is the focus of today's or any recent time's 24 hour news cycle. Nearly 30K upvotes. 100 comments. Feels like ai/bot cosplaying what an actual hot reddit post would be like but in a world without people.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A little searching with DuckDuckGo reveals that this tweet was made in January 2023. Not sure whether it's also bot-vomited from a previous instance of the same remark. It's telling that the r/all post doesn't link to the tweet or give a date.

ETA a link to the tweet in question: https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1617333819660718081

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm wondering if the chorus of comments are also harvested from the various prior threads to make it look like what real conversations would be about.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I'm thinking AI-generated based on similar past topics.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've definitely seen this exact tweet long before 2023.

It's bots all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are we bots?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Beep boop

Fuck, I mean no

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Correct! The flower would also have been acceptable.

I kid, but i do wonder whether bots will use discussions about bots to seed their bot conversations. Can a large language model have an existential crisis?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But this article is from 2021, along with all the other ones I found about the vaccine causing "shaking".

https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/jan/20/shaking-covid-vaccine-side-effect-videos-and-what-/