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Starting when?
That ship has sailed.
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2025
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The ship was never at that port.
Reddit was using bots and vote manipulators back to the Digg days, as well as scraping/reposting akin to what 9gag became famous for.
Anyone who participated in any r(slash)place could tell you this has been a lie for at least a few years.
I know he's just selling the platform to AI companies, but it's an odd take considering they've been moving away from being a message board and towards being just another content feed for years now.
Looked up some information a bit ago and found Reddit using AI written answer pages to aggregate information. Which- why? The information was already indexed by a search engine, the sole reason I landed on this page. Why are you offering me secondhand, watered down information written by your idiot machine when I can instead read sourced accounts with citations?
It’s interesting to know that you can do this, but I could not care less about a machine’s perspective on what is or is not the prevailing opinion. Moreover, it completely contradicts your stated goal, you perjurious pool of feculence.
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Half of the comments are from bots and everyone gets autobanned.
Reddit is quite literally on autopilot
And the other half are re-posts.
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He didn't say entirely or how many, lol. If there's 2 humans writing, it's technically still, "It's the place you go when you want to hear from people."
Exactly what I thought, cause a lot of comments are from bots and even the ones that appear from humans aren't necessarily humans. How can you say it remains like it is now and it is written by humans at the same time?
The site is loaded with engagement bots, and that has increased exponentially in the last year. Before I left, I was constantly getting pinged with inane questions to try to elicit a response (engagement). So much different here.
Does it count as "a human" if it's a bot reposting human-made content for the 50th time?
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I don't believe him.
Wow, that's a bit unfair. What has he ever done to show he's a lying, money grabbing, scummy piece of shit?
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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
"exploring" meaning they've been doing it for more than 5 years already and just got another incentive to continue doing so
If we don’t look for bots, there aren’t any. Sounds more republican every day. If we don’t record covid deaths, there aren’t any.
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Maybe he shouldn't have permabanned all of us power users after the Inauguration. He might have some active humans posting if he hadn't let the DOGE Goblin intimidate him into firing all of his best posters, the ones who built Reddit into what it was over the past decade. WE were Reddit, not bots, and now we're gone, and only the bots remain.
Good job, Spez.
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I'm guessing he hasn't browsed his own site recently then.
Probably nothing there to interest him since they banned /r/jailbait
Ironically the fact that Star Trek is the one of the only specific media franchises that can maintain an active community on Lemmy explains it.
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Not by this human.
Woah. A pledge from a CEO. There’s no way this is meaningless PR bullshit. We better take it seriously.
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"Trust me!" says yet another capitalist.
...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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Fuck, can this loser just fuck off into oblivion already?? You got your money pig boi now piss off!
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Reddit is filled to the brim with bots.
He can't let people poison the training data, or else his site will have no value to its customers.
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.
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… and mined and monetized by AI
Fuck /u/spez
Sounds like a AI saying it. Half of reddits users are bots, mostly ran by AI
It's really wild that the guy who co-founded Reddit is so universally hated by the users.
Talk about having completely lost touch.
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LOL!
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.
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And we're supposed to take his word for it?
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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He said, in his best human voice.
Then maybe they should stop banning all their human users.
meh, haven't been to reddit in months. nothing but bots arguing with bots. won't miss it. /fuckspez
It's gotten to the point that if someone were to ask me what my super power would be if I could choose, I'd say that I'd like to be able to see what is human and what isn't when I'm online. Very boring super power, but it would make some things a lot easier.
Ironically I also lost count on how many times I was accused of being a bot near the end of my time on reddit. I wouldn't be surprised if those who accused me were bots themselves. It was just insane sometimes.
But good luck with that, Mr CEO. I'm sure you care very much about your human users on your goofy platform.
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