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Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet (finance.yahoo.com)

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[–] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

That's what pandering to the bigger techbros spez gets.

Being there stopped being fun ever since the shits started running a massive profile-and-purge program powered by fucking AI, as even casually mentioning violence against right-wingers or POTUS and his merry chucklefucks gets your account flagged for banning. That's why there's now a chilling effect.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/reddit-stock-soars-as-company-posts-fastest-quarterly-revenue-growth-in-3-years-205631477.html

Yeah, and it aged hard like milk.

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder why people on worldnews are not banned. 🤔

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

israeli propaganda, as long as your pro-israeli or anti-russian you are free. last i recieved a 7day ban for critcizing benajamin as the instigator of the war.

[–] axexrx@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

I got my reddit ban for replying to someone in world news. Their comment was saying spain should declare war on israel. I forget why, this before the flotilla though.

I got banned for saying that was unlikely as israel is a nuclear power.

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

All my accounts were banned except one, because I used a different email address for that one. Their "AI" isn't as advanced as they want you to think. They literally just track you by email and IP.

[–] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Their profiling system is based on content in the form of posts and comments, and they used AI to build it up in addition to user-submitted reports determining one's character -- and overall ideological alignment. Mods and admins would then use that information to determine if you are a candidate for banning.

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[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 235 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Huh.

Does anyone else think that ChatGPT is still using the data, they’re just not referencing Reddit directly?

This is how you can tell Reddit’s $200+/share price is insane. Over 10% of its value dropped based on a different unprofitable company’s references to ingested content.

Yikes!!

[–] arsCynic@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The entire stock market has become a meme stock pyramid scheme. No price makes sense; it's all glorified gambling making life on this planet worse for most living things.

⚜︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 92 points 1 day ago (21 children)

Reddit’s value is its ability to use bots to manipulate and distribute information. It’s just like Twitter, meta and all the other social media platforms.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 19 hours ago

ability to allow bot propaganda to infest the subreddits more easily(especially politics and news)

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

No, it's value is that users have up voted and down voted good and bad data. This gives the AI training data that has been crowd sourced by humans. Bots manipulating votes would destroy the value of Reddit.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 52 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Bots have been controlling votes on Reddit for years. It costs about $50 to get to the front page of Reddit.

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[–] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

There are absolutely vote manipulation campaigns still happening.

See this from 12 days ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1nldj4m/why_are_we_all_just_accepting_metas_new_spy/?sort=old

12 days ago almost every top-level comment was below -50 and responses were untouched.

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[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, but Oracle's stock skyrocketed based on the unprofitable OpenAI promising to buy >100B worth of AI data center space from Oracle. Nvidia stock also surged on the news, since Oracle builds those data centers with Nvidia chips

Obviously OpenAI doesn't have the money to pay Oracle themselves, so Nvidia has helpfully given them the money

So now we have an incredibly large cyclic corporate dependency of money from Nvidia -> OpenAI -> Oracle, then back to Nvidia. Definitely not a financial disaster waiting to happen

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[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 204 points 1 day ago

Couldn't happen to a nicer company

[–] Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good job, Spez, you fuck!

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 93 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh my god I somehow forgot that Reddit IPO8ng means I get to read stories like this.

Oh no, the world's most poorly managed and funded corporate social media website's with a publically traded stock is tanking, oh nooooo!

Ahahahah!

[–] hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I remember thinking back in 2021 or 2022 when it was announced they were going public that yep, this site is gonna be gone soon.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 19 hours ago

also matter the fact they purge IRL users that gave the site real content, which is probably lopsided to AI bot(comments and responses)

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