The reddit AI is every doctor from the 90s.
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2025
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I remember one time going in for a physical in the mid 2000s. I happen to have a pretty typical winter cough going on and he just casually wrote out a prescription for opioid cough syrup.
Yup. The opioid crisis was facilitated by doctors getting kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies for prescribing opioids.
Reddit has an Al now?
Ok, fits the enshitification I previously observed while still being active there.
It has a chatbot powered by a large language model. Not sure that qualifies as "AI".
So, a clanker.
If you meant to say there's a G-spot missing in the word "AI" ro say "AGI", then you're right.
Spoiler
/s
Doesn't Al stand for "Artificial Imbecile" in most people's understanding by now?
Certainly fits to that, I would say.
Stealing this!
Yoink
Also: what does the "R" stand for?
Riberius...?
You'll have to ask Gary Mitchell!
Oh, a reason to rewatch that episode! :-)
I don't remember where exactly, but I am pretty sure I stole it myself already ;-)
"..in a more careful tech sector, wouldn’t the system have launched with better guardrails, instead of relying on random users and journalists to flag the issue?..
Well, yeah.. but Reddit has become such an algorithm-driven, profit-oriented hot mess now that shit like this slips through. The inevitable consequence of growth and hitting the level where an IPO can be launched.
And the guardrails possible on AI are laughably bad. For fun, look up some of the leaked system prompts for stuff like ChatGPT. They're just using the same sort of "ask it nicely to do what you want" as the end users are, they just re-send it before almost every command.
The other big option is keyword based filtering, and anyone who's played any MMO in the last 30 years can tell you how effective that is. People never find new ways around keyword filters.
Same phenomenon as glue pizza? Reddit does have drug-positive subs, incl. the hard stuff.
Reddit AI, now sponsored by the Sackler Family!