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So he wants it to be a huge testing grounds with ai for anybody that uses it, got it.
Use the platform? You are talking with and training AI.
Yeah a lot of subreddits already full of AI-generated slop
And we're supposed to take his word for it?
I'm guessing he hasn't browsed his own site recently then.
Probably nothing there to interest him since they banned /r/jailbait
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.
I'm glad he did, I like Lemmy so much more.
People here don’t commonly wish for your death while insulting your grandmother. It’s peaceful.
"Trust me!" says yet another capitalist.
...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.
no one cares
I don't believe him.
Wow, that's a bit unfair. What has he ever done to show he's a lying, money grabbing, scummy piece of shit?
Remember how corporations are people? Well, bots can be human if you pay enough.
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.
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.
shitddit ceo is lying
(And bots.)
Fuck, can this loser just fuck off into oblivion already?? You got your money pig boi now piss off!
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.
Yeah there's something deeply wrong with them
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.
Anyone who participated in any r(slash)place could tell you this has been a lie for at least a few years.
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.
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Half of the comments are from bots and everyone gets autobanned.
Reddit is quite literally on autopilot
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
And the other half are re-posts.
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.
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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
"exploring" meaning they've been doing it for more than 5 years already and just got another incentive to continue doing so
It's really wild that the guy who co-founded Reddit is so universally hated by the users.
Talk about having completely lost touch.
He started groveling to musk, when Xitter was bought
meanwhile in the average comment section there...
Woah. A pledge from a CEO. There’s no way this is meaningless PR bullshit. We better take it seriously.
A pledge from a humanoid creature
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."
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What's Bezos got to do with this discussion?
Butt Huffman said*
Ftfy
lol
Lmao, even
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.
How does that work when your auto-banning everyone?
By using AI to simulate human behavior on reddit, just like Facebook is doing
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