Paywalling the API and therefore killing 3rd party apps killed reddit.. banning anyone with an opinion killed reddit..

Reddit ruined reddit for everyone. AI has nothing to do with it. Well except Reddit making a deal with google to sell everything on their for training AI. But again that is Reddit ruining Reddit.

no ; reddit is ruining reddit for everyone.

No, Reddit ruined Reddit for everyone. The AI slops are simply what replace the people who left.

Reddit was one of the most human places on the Internet, until King Steven the Turd decided that it's human interactions were a valuable resource that he could sell.

Now, it's all just bots talking to bots to learn how to sound human.

Reddit is already ruined and has been for a while. And it's been ruined by the greedy Reddit CEO.

spez ruined reddit for everyone

reddit already ruined reddit for everyone long before AI was a concern.

Reddit was ruined for me a couple of years ago and AI wasn't involved. I no longer interact there but I do still read Reddit occasionally. Personally I find it difficult to wade through hundreds of one-liners without forgetting what the post was about.

Yeah, that happened way before the current AI slop bubble.

I used to have a reddit account and truly enjoyed it - but I quit when it became obvious that most of the site is simply run by bots that aim to stir the pot and divide people. I still read various reddit posts - but there is no longer any real knowledge to be gained. Mostly, I now just experience frustration, mistrust, and disappointment.

Reddit was ruined long ago, this just accelerates the decline.

Nazi sympathizing has already ruined Reddit.

That shithole has been sanitized for advertisers, which means banning anyone who talks about resisting the fascist slide America is currently in but allows /r/conservative to exist for foreign actors to spread misinformation from.

Fuck Reddit, fuck Spez, those Nazi fucks will get what’s coming to them if we’re lucky.

Let's not blame AI for everything: Reddit had a lot of problems before AI became big. Repost bots are so common that you'll see the same posts over and over again. Some of those twitter screenshots must have been posted hundreds or thousands of times. OnlyFans spam also works without AI. And we have had those bots spamming the same stupid comments before people were even thinking about GPTs.

Reddit's founder and investors killed reddit, the method they used is immaterial.

Let’s be real…Reddit itself is moderated by AI.

People who moderate subs should be called “hall monitors” or something. It’s rare to find moderators who are actually moderating with impartiality, rather that being petty and taking sides. They also have tools to exploit the Reddit auto-mod system.

It was enshitified ages ago. 

It’s ruining everthing it touches. Reddit is far from the only victim of that garbage.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

Reddit was the good place after the fall of Digg 2.0. Now Reddit has become the bad place.

AI slop is ruining everything *

Reddit already ruined Reddit. The AI slop is just the broken glass in the turd.

What, did /u/spez change his name to /u/AI_Slop?

Yeah, I've noticed an uptic of AI generated content being posted outside the AI circle jerk subreddits. Places like the AoE4 and Bionicle subreddits have had quite a number of AI posts already.

Theyve become too courageous, with others going out of the way to defend the use of generative AI with weak arguments like "but cars also steal jobs".

The one subreddit that I've seen have a healthy response against AI generated content is the Bionicle subreddit. Doesn't really surprise me as the Bionicle community is full of creatives.

Reddit was the playground for ai slop long before commercial LLMs existed. Subredditsimulator was like 2014 or 2015 and people were fucking with markov chains and other shit that dated back to like the 90s or even 70s but that also had some people experimenting with rudimentary neural networks, though obviously none with the computing power of shit like chatgpt or gemini. And obviously that whole experiment was inspired in part by the fact that botted comments were becoming increasingly common and obvious on reddit in the years leading to it, so why not make a subreddit where everyone participating is a bot?

There’s no proof but openai researchers may have been fucking around on that sub. There was a fairly drastic increase in quality of posts in that sub around the time openai would’ve been making gpt1 (2018ish) and then they began aggressively scraping the entirety of reddit, quora, etc for content. Could just be a coincidence though and they’ll never confirm it even if it’s true bc redditors will flip shit

spez is ruining reddit for everyone.

and venture capitalists.

Fuck reddit

You mean those pictures all over the front page of kittens with a caption like "I found this guy in a shoebox, in the basement, hungry. I fed him and named him Mortimer." are not real?!?!

I'm reading AI content there, and when I post, I'm getting accused of being a bot / using an LLM. Fantastic.

Did spez change his name to AI?

Yes. But, to perhaps a lower extent, this headline is also true if you change 'Reddit' to 'the internet'.

oh no

one of the most human spaces left on the internet

Journalism once again demonstrating they are about 10-15 years behind on the times. Did they forget reddit completely broke back in 2016 when the_donald left the place in a permanent troll state.

I'm not going to read the article on account of time right now but I'm guessing it's written as if reddit was invented yesterday and the prior 20 years of reddit history is didn't happen.

It hasn't been human since the early 2010s. Reddit was botted to death long before LLMs.