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Reddit CEO pledges site will remain “written by humans and voted on by humans” (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 days ago by pelespirit to c/[email protected]

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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] 17 points 6 days ago

Reddit is filled to the brim with bots.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

… and mined and monetized by AI

Fuck /u/spez

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 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 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 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.

[–] RvTV95XBeo 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

how cn we poidon the trsining data for llms? onli evr saw stuff for image gen-

That's how.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

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<

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Sounds like a AI saying it. Half of reddits users are bots, mostly ran by AI

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

LMFTFY

Battling to ensure right wing users stay at the center of the social network.

Fixed it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Then maybe they should stop banning all their human users.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Except the ones pushing right wing propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 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] 12 points 6 days ago

LOL!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 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!

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[–] gravitas_deficiency 8 points 5 days ago

lol

Lmao, even

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

meanwhile in the average comment section there...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

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

[–] ShankShill 7 points 5 days ago

Butt Huffman said*

Ftfy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

no one cares

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

"Advertising Festival" sounds like my own personal Hell.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days 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] 5 points 5 days 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] 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah a lot of subreddits already full of AI-generated slop

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