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Reddit CEO pledges site will remain “written by humans and voted on by humans” (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 days ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] picnic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

no one cares

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's really wild that the guy who co-founded Reddit is so universally hated by the users.

Talk about having completely lost touch.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

He started groveling to musk, when Xitter was bought

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe so but he made enough money for that second yacht.

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[–] DrSoap@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/26/reddit-is-being-spammed-by-ai-bots-and-its-all-reddits-fault/

Whoa! whats this? Hm.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Woah. A pledge from a CEO. There’s no way this is meaningless PR bullshit. We better take it seriously.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

A pledge from a humanoid creature

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

What's Bezos got to do with this discussion?

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

shitddit ceo is lying

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ha ha ha. Spez can be hilarious when he wants to be.

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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Really? So he's going to get rid of all the bots?

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Except the ones pushing right wing propaganda.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

meanwhile in the average comment section there...

[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 25 points 2 days ago

Not by this human.

[–] Zenith@lemm.ee 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How does that work when your auto-banning everyone?

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

By using AI to simulate human behavior on reddit, just like Facebook is doing

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 14 points 2 days ago

… and mined and monetized by AI

Fuck /u/spez

[–] ShankShill@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Butt Huffman said*

Ftfy

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

lol

Lmao, even

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

(And bots.)

[–] ennof@feddit.org 16 points 2 days ago

Reddit is filled to the brim with bots.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Then maybe they should stop banning all their human users.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sounds like a AI saying it. Half of reddits users are bots, mostly ran by AI

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (6 children)

He can't let people poison the training data, or else his site will have no value to its customers.

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[–] Balaquina@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, they may not have AI generated content (yet) but I left because their AI moderators REPEATEDLY warned/banned me from the site. Every time I sent a protest letter and had an actual person look at the post, I was unbanned, but I am fed the fuck up. That site is a study in enshittification. I am done with those assholes.

And, if they think I'm going to let them scan my retina in order to post, they can fuck right off.

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[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

"Advertising Festival" sounds like my own personal Hell.

[–] a9249@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

until every single comment and post has a capacha and 3factor behind it, the site will be overrun with bots... and when it does... the frustration will create a wasteland.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

They were actually doing great combating bots in the past, loved reading their biannual reports on the subject, but after they partnered with AI I don't think there is any benefit of the doubt to give.

[–] BubblyRomeo@kbin.earth 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Biggest woosh moment on the whole history of internet! On the other note, shut this community now! We can't get peak than this!

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[–] rottenmummy@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago

LOL!

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