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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
*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
Why would they care? People still on reddit don’t seem likely to leave
Damn I had forgot about subredditsimulator. It felt like AI was stupid and funny, and look where we are now
AI slop is ruining everything *
Fuck reddit
Who was this a surprise to exactly?
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.
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.
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
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
imagine ruining reddit
Reddit’s founder and investors killed reddit, the method they used is immaterial.
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.
Didn’t the owner of the_donald try to close it down himself, only to be told by the admins that he couldn’t because it brought too much traffic to the site? Or am I thinking of that KotakuInAction sub?
