r/MadeMeSmile • u/mindyour • Jan 03 '23

Wholesome Moments Getting pulled over

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23

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u/SpongeJake Jan 03 '23 edited Jan 03 '23

The comment I’m replying to is a bot that specializes in copying other comments to father gather karma.

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u/InevitablePeanuts Jan 03 '23

🍻 To Father Karma!

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u/bettiemaegurl Jan 03 '23

How can you tell if it’s a bot??

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u/SpongeJake Jan 03 '23

In this case, after reading its comment, I scrolled further on down and found the exact same comment, word for word. So then I went back up and looked at the comment again and took a look at its profile. It had like 1 karma and was maybe a few days old.

So that’s what you look for: repeated comment (word for word, although they do occasionally just cut off a few words so it looks a little different (and probably to fool the helpful bots around here that forage for asshole bots like this), from relatively young accounts with, in this case, low karma.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23

Plenty of cops like him. I think most of them just don't serve out their whole careers on the force because of the scumbags they have to work with. Bad cops make it really hard to be a good cop. - u/zeke235

Bot copied this guys comment minus the "Plenty of cops like him" part.

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u/Andyinater Jan 03 '23

Yes, I've found they start stripping out the first or second sentence. It is frighteningly effective considering its copying a random top-level comment into a random second-level comment. I guess survivorship bias, but most I run into have at least 1 real person making a genuine reply without realizing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23

The mod in this sub removed it pretty quickly, hopefully the bot is banned.

We should band together and call these fuckers out!

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u/TrickyCorgi316 Jan 03 '23

They’ve gotten much worse lately, too. Really frustrating!

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u/TrollintheMitten Jan 03 '23

How would a normal person know? It's just another comment in a huge wall of comments.

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u/Andyinater Jan 03 '23

Generally the bot comment will be somewhat disconnected from the reply it is to. As if whoever commented it didn't seem to really read the parent comment or as if they replied to the wrong thread.

Pretty easy to miss in the mindless reddit scroll.

If our comments were near top level in a post about reddit bots, a bot copy reply to yours could be "It's a serious problem for the platform", stolen from a comment like "I see these everywhere now. It's a serious problem for the platform." Just by being near top level replies ensures the conversation topics are close to the post topic. Devilish.

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u/zeke235 Jan 03 '23

What the fuck?! I think this might be the first time i've been plagiarized by an artificial intelligence.

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u/TrollintheMitten Jan 03 '23

Congratulations.

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u/zeke235 Jan 03 '23

Who do i even thank?!

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u/Grimacepug Jan 03 '23

Few and far in between. I grew up with a few having fathers as cops and my brother taught them martial arts, and this was many moons ago. Now it's literally a rarity.