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

spez is ruining reddit for everyone.

and venture capitalists.

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

AI slop is ruining everything *

oh no

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

It's ruining far more than 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?!?!

Fuck reddit

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

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.

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.

imagine ruining reddit

Not for me! I left that place years ago…

Good...GOOD

reddit was ruined by reddit

it's just evidence that the site went the way of social media and is saturated with people who circulate such things

lmfao no, corporate greed and "shareholder value" is ruining both AI and reddit (and pretty much everything else) for everyone.

Here's the thing though, Reddit provided a lot of AI training data. Now AI content is ruining Reddit. This is like a large corporation making millions off cider and then destroying the orchard.

Is? It's done already. But the bots got there years ago, so who really cares about now.

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. 

I went on reddit yesterday just for a minute. Saw a post about some guy asking what he could do with a small hallway like space in his house (imagine a small walk in closet without the door). Almost every response I opened up was an AI generated image. That thread alone probably wasted a small swimming pool of water just cause some people couldn't be arsed to copy and paste a server rack.

I regret wasting all those years trying to fight back all the bots I flagged on that hot garbage platform.

But I'm grateful that I gained skills on how to identify an LLM bot from a mile away.

Now that they're starting to creep in Lemmy, I'm prepared.

Reddit has been ruined for a while now, this is just it getting worse.

Yeah right I remember the good old wholesome days of jailbait.

Reddit is now Facebook 2.0.

Nope, can't ruin it for me because I have left this cursed place.