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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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"exploring" meaning they've been doing it for more than 5 years already and just got another incentive to continue doing so
Half of the comments are from bots and everyone gets autobanned.
Reddit is quite literally on autopilot
Woah. A pledge from a CEO. There’s no way this is meaningless PR bullshit. We better take it seriously.
How does that work when your auto-banning everyone?
… and mined and monetized by AI
Fuck /u/spez
And I want to be a millionaire!
Ha ha ha. Spez can be hilarious when he wants to be.
He's an alien trying to act human
Dude's fighting ghosts.
Prove it Huffman!
Sounds like a AI saying it. Half of reddits users are bots, mostly ran by AI
Starting when?
That ship has sailed.
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.
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.
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.
They became Facebook 2.0. also interesting they block Facebook and FB as a term now too.
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Reddit is filled to the brim with bots.
Site as in code or site as in content? Incan believe the former, not the latter
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."
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?
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.
Does it count as "a human" if it's a bot reposting human-made content for the 50th time?
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.
He can't let people poison the training data, or else his site will have no value to its customers.
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.
how cn we poidon the trsining data for llms? onli evr saw stuff for image gen-
That's how.
oh god >~< i actually didnt realize autocomplete wasnt working at all heheheheeee....
i.... will fix up the message, this is actually unreadable.... did not mean to go that far >v<
True, but this is an advertisement for something that doesn't exist.
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.
You're lucky they ignore most ban appeals banned by AI, including mines. And the shadowban sub complained the same
Not by this human.
Biggest woosh moment on the whole history of internet! On the other note, shut this community now! We can't get peak than this!
Biggest woosh moment on the whole history of internet!
Whistling past a few graveyards
meh, haven't been to reddit in months. nothing but bots arguing with bots. won't miss it. /fuckspez
"Oh, you left reddit for Lemmy? Welcome! Enjoy the conversations about reddit."
When they're being made fun of? Yes, I'm absolutely enjoying it.
Yeah, can't have your excellent training data getting polluted
LOL!
The twist - AI was originally trained on human input, so it's human even with 99% bots, from a certain point of view.
You will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
Cool story!
Lol
Who care when people just get auto banned for obnoxious things. Get bent.
fuckoff spez