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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] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, they may not have AI generated content (yet) but I left because their AI moderators REPEATEDLY warned/banned me from the site. Every time I sent a protest letter and had an actual person look at the post, I was unbanned, but I am fed the fuck up. That site is a study in enshittification. I am done with those assholes.

And, if they think I'm going to let them scan my retina in order to post, they can fuck right off.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Oh, you left reddit for Lemmy? Welcome! Enjoy the conversations about reddit."

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Yeah, can't have your excellent training data getting polluted

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Reddit is filled to the brim with bots.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Who care when people just get auto banned for obnoxious things. Get bent.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He can't let people poison the training data, or else his site will have no value to its customers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

how cn we poison the training data for llms? only ever saw stuff for image gen-

imfo: i updated the spelling. it was unreadably bad before.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

True, but this is an advertisement for something that doesn't exist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

fuckoff spez

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

meh, haven't been to reddit in months. nothing but bots arguing with bots. won't miss it. /fuckspez

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Cool story!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The twist - AI was originally trained on human input, so it's human even with 99% bots, from a certain point of view.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

You will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Biggest woosh moment on the whole history of internet! On the other note, shut this community now! We can't get peak than this!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Biggest woosh moment on the whole history of internet!

Whistling past a few graveyards

[–] [email protected] 192 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Starting when?

That ship has sailed.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The ship was never at that port.

Reddit was using bots and vote manipulators back to the Digg days, as well as scraping/reposting akin to what 9gag became famous for.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I know he's just selling the platform to AI companies, but it's an odd take considering they've been moving away from being a message board and towards being just another content feed for years now.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

Looked up some information a bit ago and found Reddit using AI written answer pages to aggregate information. Which- why? The information was already indexed by a search engine, the sole reason I landed on this page. Why are you offering me secondhand, watered down information written by your idiot machine when I can instead read sourced accounts with citations?

It’s interesting to know that you can do this, but I could not care less about a machine’s perspective on what is or is not the prevailing opinion. Moreover, it completely contradicts your stated goal, you perjurious pool of feculence.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

Not by this human.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

He didn't say entirely or how many, lol. If there's 2 humans writing, it's technically still, "It's the place you go when you want to hear from people."

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Exactly what I thought, cause a lot of comments are from bots and even the ones that appear from humans aren't necessarily humans. How can you say it remains like it is now and it is written by humans at the same time?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

The site is loaded with engagement bots, and that has increased exponentially in the last year. Before I left, I was constantly getting pinged with inane questions to try to elicit a response (engagement). So much different here.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does it count as "a human" if it's a bot reposting human-made content for the 50th time?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I'd say the content will forever remain "human written content", but also that it being once written by a human doesn't mean the repost is a valuable addition to reddit.

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