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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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[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 19 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 points 16 hours ago

He's an alien trying to act human

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 13 points 16 hours ago

… and mined and monetized by AI

Fuck /u/spez

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

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

[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 24 points 19 hours ago

Not by this human.

[–] ennof@feddit.org 16 points 18 hours ago

Reddit is filled to the brim with bots.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours 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 18 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours 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 15 hours 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 15 hours 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 12 hours 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 18 hours ago

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

[–] Balaquina@lemmy.ca 11 points 17 hours 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 16 hours ago

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

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Prove it Huffman!

[–] BubblyRomeo@kbin.earth 10 points 19 hours 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!

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Biggest woosh moment on the whole history of internet!

Whistling past a few graveyards

[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] rottenmummy@lemmy.ml 10 points 19 hours ago
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 8 points 19 hours 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.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 3 points 18 hours ago

You will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

And I want to be a millionaire!

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] halfapage@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Dude's fighting ghosts.

[–] Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Cool story!

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)
[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 points 16 hours ago

Site as in code or site as in content? Incan believe the former, not the latter

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago

fuckoff spez

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