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What in the fresh hell is this? (lemmy.world)
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Stumbled on this while researching tablet PCs and clicking on a Reddit "post" from Google results. I take no pride in any part of that sentence.

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[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This is... silly. But I do wonder how it works. Does it aggregate all responses and look for commonalities? Does it factor in the upvote/downvote counts? And, does it know how to discern genuine user input from astroturfed marketing copy in disguise?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

does it know how to discern genuine user input from astroturfed marketing copy in disguise?

even with upvote counts, it might be upvoted for being a funny joke response

there's also no way to click on a user's profile to check if the activity is genuine, or if the user is experienced in the topic they are commenting about

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I saw a post a few weeks ago about a company's chatbot that had learned from Reddit to answer questions by saying:

Sure, here's a video tutorial on how to do that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

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