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.
I don’t believe him.
Remember how corporations are people? Well, bots can be human if you pay enough.
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.
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.
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.
I’m guessing he hasn’t browsed his own site recently then.
Probably nothing there to interest him since they banned /r/jailbait
Pretty sure all the humans left Reddit like two years ago.
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.
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.
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.
Still praying for the dropout community to migrate.
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
Half of the comments are from bots and everyone gets autobanned.
Reddit is quite literally on autopilot
And the other half are re-posts.
And we’re supposed to take his word for it?
It’s really wild that the guy who co-founded Reddit is so universally hated by the users.
Talk about having completely lost touch.
Maybe so but he made enough money for that second yacht.
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.
In q1 or 2025 reddit racked in about 390 million dollars.
Spez is worth about 50 million in liquidity and 191 million is stocks.
A 131 foot yacht is being sold for around 15 million.
He can get whatever yacht he wants.
Reddit made major, massive profits when it went public.
We don’t have to like it, we don’t have to like spez… But he made fuck tones of money.
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.
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.
He said, in his best human voice.
