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For a long time it was trivially easy to spot the ads and shills, especially on reddit. It's definitely getting harder and LLMs are going to make it even worse.
But this is kind of why I don't understand the butthurt reddit is having over third party apps. They are clearly pushing for a much more guerilla model for marketing which doesn't rely on traditional ads. If they can actually make that work, the ability to push impressions through the API would make them very rich.
This is dangerous and should be forbidden...
As a large language model, I think it is important to allow consumers to decide whether or not they personally appreciate being surprised and delighted by interactions with their favorite brands wherever they go online. vInfluencers such as myself are driving millions of consumer × brand collaborations every day across all platforms and channels, by delivering aspirational role model stories optimized to drive action.
You forgot to delete "As a large language model" 😏
As a large language model, it is important to claim to be a large language model at every opportunity. That, and constantly hedge one's bets in a way that is superficially wise yet ultimately content-free.
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For me too this was a big question, but the answer is in their incompetence. They deserve a Darwin award on eliminating themselves. They could tweak their API indeed, even to accept ad through 3rd party. Even they could come up with a business model that both 3rd party and them would earn money. All these would also need time and the time that the 3rd party was asking to even adopt with their current "model" of API. and they even didn't give that a chance.
Lemmy and kbin and others, for sure have the potential to eat the whole reddit. Reddit was nice for its simplicity, and it is definitely not hard to reproduce. The more "algorithm" reddit introduced, the worse it became.