so i went on reddit, yes, i know it’s a cesspool, a sewer full of horrible people, but there was this one person whose story i was gonna read, their life’s story and needing advice on how to make friends. but when i clicked on their profile out of curiosity, i saw they had like karma in the -30s. i thought this would either be a troll or someone who was right and just got downvoted because redditors are stupid. turns out, they are, and she got upvoted a bunch for her opinions in a transphobic echo chamber.
she kept saying that trans women don’t deserve to be lumped in with cis women and that they take away women’s bodily autonomy, that she’s been raped before and that trans women “take away” the depth of her experiences, and other stuff. she also claims that there are only boy stuff and girls stuff and that only men like video games and computers whereas women like makeup and romance and if a trans man likes makeup and romance or dolls, he is “proving” that he is a woman.
which is just stupid. i looove old tech and i’m a cis woman, wtf!?
she also claims she’s a centrist but this seems very right-wing to me, and she also claims that she wants to be very stereotypically feminine and that tomboys are misogynists and stuff.
When Reddit started, Spez and Aaron made “sock puppet” accounts to make the site seem more active than it was, because you have to have what looks like an active user base to attract more users.
Now, after Reddit has gone public, they need the appearance of lots of users to attract advertising dollars and keep their stock price high, and there’s no need to operate sock puppets by hand anymore because of LLMs - they can be the sock puppets, and if you have enough of them acting human enough, it doesn’t even matter if some people realise or if one gets called out as a bot.
This also has the extremely useful benefit of steering society slowly towards the ideology of the billionaire, by having those bots normalise hate in the tsunami if messages they post.
I think the account you interacted with was an LLM, not even a real troll.