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I don't believe him.
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2025
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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.
Fuck, can this loser just fuck off into oblivion already?? You got your money pig boi now piss off!
meanwhile in the average comment section there...
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.
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.
Really? So he's going to get rid of all the bots?
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.
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.
Butt Huffman said*
Ftfy
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.
lol
Lmao, even
Half of the comments are from bots and everyone gets autobanned.
Reddit is quite literally on autopilot
And the other half are re-posts.
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
"Advertising Festival" sounds like my own personal Hell.
Woah. A pledge from a CEO. There’s no way this is meaningless PR bullshit. We better take it seriously.
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.
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Then maybe they should stop banning all their human users.
How does that work when your auto-banning everyone?
… and mined and monetized by AI
Fuck /u/spez
Ha ha ha. Spez can be hilarious when he wants to be.
He's an alien trying to act human
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.
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Sounds like a AI saying it. Half of reddits users are bots, mostly ran by AI
Reddit is filled to the brim with bots.
Not by this human.
He can't let people poison the training data, or else his site will have no value to its customers.
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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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Prove it Huffman!
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