But Huffman said Reddit was now battling to ensure its users stay at the center of the social network. “Where the rest of the internet seems to be powered by or written by or summarized by AI, Reddit is distinctly human,” he said. “It’s the place you go when you want to hear from people, their lived experiences, their perspectives, their recommendations. Reddit is communities and human curation and conversation and authenticity.”
As Reddit becomes an increasingly important source for LLMs, advertisers are responding with what one agency chief described as a “massive migration” to the platform.
Multiple advertising and agency executives speaking during this month’s Cannes advertising festival told the FT that brands were increasingly exploring hosting a business account and posting content on Reddit to boost the likelihood of their ads appearing in the responses of generative AI chatbots.
Lots of people here keep mentioning that most shadowbans were caused by things they said, usually related to politics, but I’ve been instantly shadowbanned (and then suspended) after posting a comment about gnats fungus in the houseplants subreddit that, as far as I know, had nothing to do with politics.
Before this, it happened after posting a comment about digital art (which again had nothing to do with politics); so the question still remains: What is the point of all this besides making people frustrated and disappointed?
Probably why they are banning so many REAL users at such a high rate.
LMFTFY
Battling to ensure right wing users stay at the center of the social network.
Fixed it.
“remain”? They really don’t use their own service, do they?
And controlled by 15 mods.
I’m wondering if advertisers are starting to notice - that’s the only thing that’ll make these fuckers try to clean house. It’s maybe two years since I left reddit and even then it was absolutely infested with bots. They didn’t give a fuck, only cared about the IPO. But advertisers are going to care when they get lots of engagement but no customers because all the engagement is bots.
Do they have a way to test that? Surely the advertisers wouldn’t just trust meta, google, reddit, etc.
I’ve worked on some enterprise projects specifically to detect bot activity, so that they wouldn’t waste ML resources on a fake customer. While it’s a bit of a cat and mouse game, they can certainly review past data for their advertising campaign and the conversion rates they are getting in order to determine if reddit ads are worth the money
That’s good to hear, I hope they have many fights about it.
It’s gotten to the point that if someone were to ask me what my super power would be if I could choose, I’d say that I’d like to be able to see what is human and what isn’t when I’m online. Very boring super power, but it would make some things a lot easier.
Ironically I also lost count on how many times I was accused of being a bot near the end of my time on reddit. I wouldn’t be surprised if those who accused me were bots themselves. It was just insane sometimes.
But good luck with that, Mr CEO. I’m sure you care very much about your human users on your goofy platform.
Me too…any tips for spotting it?
Bots dominate Reddit. This will never change. Straight lying to everyone’s faces.
He said, in his best human voice.
Ah ! so when do they roll it back ?
not this human
sent from my pinephone
And we’re supposed to take his word for it?
So he wants it to be a huge testing grounds with ai for anybody that uses it, got it.
Use the platform? You are talking with and training AI.
he wants to be facebook essentially, also like to point out that reddit bans the word facebook and FB.
Ewwww why (besides the obvious lack of moral-compass greed) would you want to be Facebook?
$$$$
I’m guessing he hasn’t browsed his own site recently then.
Probably nothing there to interest him since they banned /r/jailbait
Maybe he shouldn’t have permabanned all of us power users after the Inauguration. He might have some active humans posting if he hadn’t let the DOGE Goblin intimidate him into firing all of his best posters, the ones who built Reddit into what it was over the past decade. WE were Reddit, not bots, and now we’re gone, and only the bots remain.
Good job, Spez.
The only thing I miss from reddit was reddit gifts. That was the true peak.
they were already on the 4th purge by the time i was permaban in feb, from nov-5th. and then im guessing they switched to using more insidious shadowbans, so people wont notice huge drop in users at once if its done randomly by AI, and shadowbans to alert the accounts that they are banned too.
I’m glad he did, I like Lemmy so much more.
People here don’t commonly wish for your death while insulting your grandmother. It’s peaceful.
I hope you are enjoying life, and your grandmother is a wonderful lady.
I’ve had something close to this coming from the good folks of hexbear when I said I was french. Apparently I am barred from talking about imperialism because of my citizenship
