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this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2026
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Spez is seriously destroying Reddit.
Already destroyed
This will absolutely print money. Ad companies and normies will unironically loooove this.
Long term, I expect this will accelerate astroturfing and obliterate whatever credibility remains on Reddit. But, Reddit was already heading in that direction anyway and 99% of people couldn't care less, so this will make bank.
Fuck spez.
My only reason for going back is for /r/cfb because there is no good coverage of college football on lemmy that compares. At least not that I have found
Yes. Normies and non-normies alike have used Reddit as a goldmine for reviews & advice on niche products. Because it was generally real people giving real advice, and bullshit ads were downvoted.
This will incentivize abusive behavior and lead to it no longer functioning as a place you can reasonably expect real people/
This makes a lot of sense for Reddit. Genuine discussions about things being turned into reviews is a pretty damn good use of AI. But I also really hate the idea as a user (well, not of Reddit anymore lol). If I was having a genuine discussion about Leatherman pliers, my target is the people I'm in a discussion with and not a general audience. It is invasive to turn that into a review. That candidness is probably extremely valuable though.
That said it's already being done by Google and everybody else. This is just being a bit more direct about it.
It reminds me of this person I know who always steers the conversation into what he is interested in. It feels like a bad faith conversation, and if I can't downvote and discourage that, what is left?
That's one way to circumvent adblockers. Just turn your entire site into the ad...
What percentage of "user"-generated content on Reddit is slop now? And that'll be fodder for the review AI?
Right? This just feels like a scheme to "launder" astroturfing and make it seem more legitimate.
What percentage of “user”-generated content on Reddit is slop now?
I know it's not a popular opinion, but very little of it is.
I'm not saying there's none - not saying that at all - but as far as your average thread where everyone is posting about all the other comments being AI generated... it's very tedious and obviously untrue.
Lol
3rd party ai companies were already doing that, so they went "why shouldn't i keep it?" meme