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But Huffman said Reddit was now battling to ensure its users stay at the center of the social network. “Where the rest of the internet seems to be powered by or written by or summarized by AI, Reddit is distinctly human,” he said. “It’s the place you go when you want to hear from people, their lived experiences, their perspectives, their recommendations. Reddit is communities and human curation and conversation and authenticity.”

As Reddit becomes an increasingly important source for LLMs, advertisers are responding with what one agency chief described as a “massive migration” to the platform.

Multiple advertising and agency executives speaking during this month’s Cannes advertising festival told the FT that brands were increasingly exploring hosting a business account and posting content on Reddit to boost the likelihood of their ads appearing in the responses of generative AI chatbots.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago

I'm guessing he hasn't browsed his own site recently then.

Probably nothing there to interest him since they banned /r/jailbait

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

(And bots.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

no one cares

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe he shouldn't have permabanned all of us power users after the Inauguration. He might have some active humans posting if he hadn't let the DOGE Goblin intimidate him into firing all of his best posters, the ones who built Reddit into what it was over the past decade. WE were Reddit, not bots, and now we're gone, and only the bots remain.

Good job, Spez.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm glad he did, I like Lemmy so much more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

People here don’t commonly wish for your death while insulting your grandmother. It’s peaceful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

shitddit ceo is lying

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago

"Trust me!" says yet another capitalist.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago

...with AI admin and moderation. Anyone who's been banned from reddit will tell you that, hell it says as much in the message they give you. I was banned once for saying "slava ukraini" which according to my ban was a direct attack at a minority (apparently russians are a minority according to reddit bots) and then another for asking how long before citizens begin shooting at ICE agents which, again according to reddit bots, was inciting violence on a minority (ICE agents are now also a minority according to reddit).

the vast majority of posts and comments are bots. the obvious reposts with misleading titles to generate karma to allow said bots to have enough karma to then post on various other subreddits to push whatever bullshit agenda or product they want to push.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

meanwhile in the average comment section there...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck, can this loser just fuck off into oblivion already?? You got your money pig boi now piss off!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It’s like Zuck. Why do you keep at it? You won already. The answer is that they are deeply flawed people who needed to go into therapy decades back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah there's something deeply wrong with them

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

until every single comment and post has a capacha and 3factor behind it, the site will be overrun with bots... and when it does... the frustration will create a wasteland.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

They were actually doing great combating bots in the past, loved reading their biannual reports on the subject, but after they partnered with AI I don't think there is any benefit of the doubt to give.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

If we don’t look for bots, there aren’t any. Sounds more republican every day. If we don’t record covid deaths, there aren’t any.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Any text based sub hitting all regularly is full of AI slop and sensational stories. Wouldn't be like this is Aaron were still around.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 14 hours ago

Wow, that's a bit unfair. What has he ever done to show he's a lying, money grabbing, scummy piece of shit?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

Remember how corporations are people? Well, bots can be human if you pay enough.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Really? So he's going to get rid of all the bots?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Except the ones pushing right wing propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

It's really wild that the guy who co-founded Reddit is so universally hated by the users.

Talk about having completely lost touch.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

He started groveling to musk, when Xitter was bought

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe so but he made enough money for that second yacht.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

If he'd tried to nurture some goodwill, perhaps the users wouldn't so harshly reject all attempts at monetization.

Perhaps then he'd be able to afford yachts that don't look so puny next to those of other social media oligarchs and could go to bed with the satisfaction of having made a profit at least once in his life.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago

Butt Huffman said*

Ftfy

[–] [email protected] 21 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Pretty sure all the humans left Reddit like two years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

50% of all users are bots

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

For me it was a few hours ago. My first profile got banned for "inciting violence" cause I said "fuck trump and Obama". And just got my other account banned for inciting violence but they deleted the comment so I can't tell you what exactly I said, but it's not in my nature to actually advocate for violence.

I believe I was followed around by some trumptard, cause I'm a pretty out and loud leftist. I'm not going through the trouble of creating another one as I have been using it very infrequently since discovering boost for Android. Plus I don't want to help them pad their numbers, or be at the wim of some ai system that doesn't even read the comment and just auto bans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Conservatives absolutely gamed the reporting system. I once got a hit for standing up for gay people (I am one) because I summarized and ridiculed someone else’s comment that was anti gay. It was a honeypot.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 22 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago

lol

Lmao, even

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

"Advertising Festival" sounds like my own personal Hell.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Ironically the fact that Star Trek is the one of the only specific media franchises that can maintain an active community on Lemmy explains it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Still praying for the dropout community to migrate.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Then maybe they should stop banning all their human users.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Half of the comments are from bots and everyone gets autobanned.

Reddit is quite literally on autopilot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

It's being propped up by AI and bots currently, at some point he must've realized that he banned too many people, and he couldn't openly unban them to restore the numbersz so he went the Meta route

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

And the other half are re-posts.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Woah. A pledge from a CEO. There’s no way this is meaningless PR bullshit. We better take it seriously.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

A pledge from a humanoid creature

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