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No, Reddit ruined Reddit for everyone. The AI slops are simply what replace the people who left.
The day they got rid of reddit gold and started cash grabbing hard was the day the writing was on the wall.
They got rid of gold?? When?? I left reddot and came to Lemmy in the third-party apps exodus and haven’t even looked back
Oh, I’ve looked back. It’s hard not to rubberneck at such a horrendous train wreck. Especially when I was just a passenger on that very train.
I left reddit during the great API massacre as well, then I went back to only be taken out by the great Trump massacre of '24 where they banned a huge chuck of the community that had any anti-trump sentiments in their profile history…because Trump threatened them.
Now I have been banned 6 more times, just by AI detecting language it doesn’t like and its catalogue of dislike only continues to grow.
They pretend that humans are reviewing ban appeals, it is clear that they are not. The AI is banning more people than they could possibly keep up with. Now, more often than not, there is no reply to ban appeals whatsoever.
Spez is a spineless coward who threw the reddit community overboard a long time ago and continues to do so whenever it suits him. Reddit exists only to shit money for him now.
It has been left twisted and corrupted in favor of the conquest for money and controlling public opinion
I’ll be back to fight the good fight just as soon as I can create a new account and switch VPNs
I hate that now there’s even automated profiles managed by AIs which basically ragebait constantly on normal subreddits. And im not even talking about large ones. Heck this must be the worst psyop ever made in recent history
*was considered. Probably
Yeah, that happened way before the current AI slop bubble.
Yes it did. Making up variation of the same story in order to farm upvotes used to be done by humans.
But the strategy of throwing shit at the wall and see what sticks has now been industrialized with AI, because the machine can produce tons of cheaper, faster, smellier shit.
Reddit and generally socials are basically the perfect application for AI. Unreliable results are not a bug but a feature. You have thousands of humans helpfully training it for free by up or downvoting the result. And the AI companies get a machine trained to persuade large groups of people of any made-up story.
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
Honestly subreddit simulator was amazing. At that time I was super into text generation, I programmed a few basic Markov chains as well. It is a shame that modern generative AI sucked the joy out of what I considered a fun toy at the time.
Damn I had forgot about subredditsimulator. It felt like AI was stupid and funny, and look where we are now
Why would they care? People still on reddit don’t seem likely to leave
AI slop is ruining everything *
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?!?!
My God! You ruined my world.
No, really it was a large slug. And TBF Mortimer is a great name for a slug.
Who was this a surprise to exactly?
Is? It’s done already. But the bots got there years ago, so who really cares about now.
Oh My God, Who CARES!? I left Reddit for here awhile ago. The only reason I keep a single account there, is if they have a solution to a problem I have and have to look it up.
You don’t need an account for that, really. I haven’t logged into Reddit since the API enshitification wave.
Same, came over during the first API fuckery wave and haven’t gone back at all. I might not have much but I have principles, fuck em.
reddit already ruined reddit for everyone long before AI was a concern.
I mean that’s why we’re here…
And yet it still had room to get worse, and it’s still not even in its shittiest form.
People still use reddit, thought it was a bots only network
I’m reading AI content there, and when I post, I’m getting accused of being a bot / using an LLM. Fantastic.
My personal favorite accusation is that “I write too perfectly.” Thanks, I guess? Maybe the models were trained on me?
Books. The models were trained on books. And it’s terrifying that 90% of people think you’re not real if you use a semicolon correctly.
I mean its fair, no one uses semicolons – except for you evidently.
you should feel ashamed but not for resembling an AI…
there is no reason to ever use a semicolon
@IronBird @mirshafie did you use a comma where you should have used a semicolon there on purpose
imagine ruining reddit
Reddit’s founder and investors killed reddit, the method they used is immaterial.
