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

submitted 1 week ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Woah. A pledge from a CEO. There’s no way this is meaningless PR bullshit. We better take it seriously.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago

"Trust me!" says yet another capitalist.

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

How does that work when your auto-banning everyone?

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

Reddit is filled to the brim with bots.

[–] Sho@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fuck, can this loser just fuck off into oblivion already?? You got your money pig boi now piss off!

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week 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 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week 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 5 points 1 week 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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[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

...with AI admin and moderation. Anyone who's been banned from reddit will tell you that, hell it says as much in the message they give you. I was banned once for saying "slava ukraini" which according to my ban was a direct attack at a minority (apparently russians are a minority according to reddit bots) and then another for asking how long before citizens begin shooting at ICE agents which, again according to reddit bots, was inciting violence on a minority (ICE agents are now also a minority according to reddit).

the vast majority of posts and comments are bots. the obvious reposts with misleading titles to generate karma to allow said bots to have enough karma to then post on various other subreddits to push whatever bullshit agenda or product they want to push.

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[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 14 points 1 week ago

… and mined and monetized by AI

Fuck /u/spez

[–] DrSoap@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/26/reddit-is-being-spammed-by-ai-bots-and-its-all-reddits-fault/

Whoa! whats this? Hm.

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

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

[–] Balaquina@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week 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 6 points 1 week 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 week 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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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It's really wild that the guy who co-founded Reddit is so universally hated by the users.

Talk about having completely lost touch.

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

He started groveling to musk, when Xitter was bought

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

Then maybe they should stop banning all their human users.

[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

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

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 8 points 1 week 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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[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

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

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

lol

Lmao, even

[–] ShankShill@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Butt Huffman said*

Ftfy

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

meanwhile in the average comment section there...

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Prove it Huffman!

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

"Advertising Festival" sounds like my own personal Hell.

[–] Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Cool story!

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Lol

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