[Meta] AI "enthusiasts" promoting on this subreddit

Firstly, sorry if this is not allowed but I thought I might just put this out there. I'm sure we've all noticed a lot of AI related content on this subreddit. I've gone into these discussions a fair few times in the comments, but I'm not looking to discuss AI or LLMs in math or anything like that here. What I do want to point out is that a lot of traffic seems to be from people who are not mathematicians and have a very vague idea of what mathematics is, but are active in /r/singularity, /r/accelerate, /r/ArtificialInteligence and similar. These subreddits are very ideologically driven in various ways and extremely pro-AI to the point that "anti-AI" or "luddites" are forbidden there. This is not always obvious as many users have their post history hidden (though from what I understand this is on by default for new users too). For example in a recent thread out of the 5 top comments (no idea what the deleted comment was) 3 users are active in one of the afformentioned subreddits, 1 seems to have a bachelor's in math and is in CS otherwise and only 1 seems to have a masters and is looking for a PhD. To be clear, I am not here for a witch-hunt on individual users which is why I did not link to their accounts so please don't harass anyone. But what I am trying to say is that most of the traffic to these threads does not seem to be from mathematicians or even people interested in math as such, but from people interested in promoting AI who are simply using math as a promotional tool. I would assume big companies use bot accounts on reddit (and have for a long while), though I would also guess this subreddit is too small to bother.

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