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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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[–] ShankShill@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Butt Huffman said*

Ftfy

[–] Zenith@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How does that work when your auto-banning everyone?

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 23 hours ago

By using AI to simulate human behavior on reddit, just like Facebook is doing

lol

Lmao, even

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ha ha ha. Spez can be hilarious when he wants to be.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

He's an alien trying to act human

[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 25 points 1 day ago

Not by this human.

[–] thefluffiest 14 points 1 day ago

… and mined and monetized by AI

Fuck /u/spez

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Then maybe they should stop banning all their human users.

[–] a9249@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day 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.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day 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.

[–] ennof@feddit.org 16 points 1 day ago

Reddit is filled to the brim with bots.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

"Advertising Festival" sounds like my own personal Hell.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He can't let people poison the training data, or else his site will have no value to its customers.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 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@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

That's how.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day 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<

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If LLMs train on text output from LLMs, the results will degenerate into total garbage over time. The people that buy reddit data for LLM training know this. They will stop buying if they think there's a lot of LLM text on Reddit.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

True, but this is an advertisement for something that doesn't exist.

[–] Balaquina@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day 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.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

You're lucky they ignore most ban appeals banned by AI, including mines. And the shadowban sub complained the same

[–] BubblyRomeo@kbin.earth 11 points 1 day 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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[–] rottenmummy@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago
[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 8 points 1 day 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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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Prove it Huffman!

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

When they're being made fun of? Yes, I'm absolutely enjoying it.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

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

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

And I want to be a millionaire!

[–] Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Cool story!

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

(Although there is always the failwhale site...)

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[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Who care when people just get auto banned for obnoxious things. Get bent.

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