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  • can@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    2 days ago

    Reddit now has to be on the lookout for AI-generated comments and posts infiltrating its site. It’s an important thing for the platform to stay on top of, says Slowe: Reddit’s key benefit is that you can trust that a lot of what’s written on it is written by humans, and AI spam could erode that.

    That ship sailed long ago.

    “At the end of the day, we aren’t a charity,” Slowe says. Reddit wants to provide a service that people can use for free, “but don’t build your business on our back and expect us not to try and defend ourselves.”

    The fucking nerve.

    The users aren’t a charity either.

    • criss_cross@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 day ago

      Ironic given that Reddit founders would post under multiple aliases in the early days to make it seem like the site had more users than it did.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      reddit wants what Facebook has, AI generated content, and aggressive right wing propaganda which drives republicans and hate-users(counter to republicans) to the site.

      they did a disservice by banning IRL users, and not actuall botters, it tells us that bots are half of thier accounts.

  • danhab99@programming.dev
    4·
    2 days ago

    Only 20??? It feels older

    I’d honestly say that with what I know about history and technology and the concept of web 1.0 I feel like reddit is at least older than me (I’m 26)

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 days ago

    That ai search seems like a good feature - I never could find anything on reddit.

    I even have some sympathy for them not wanting our freely given content to be freely given to others … no I don’t, and it’s a shame they couldn’t have handled that differently. Too little too late