It's incredible that I was on reddit for 13 years or something, daily, maybe I spent 20'000 hours there. Then I dropped after the API fiasco (I'm a SyncPro user) and never went back, I have no clue what's going on since ~July and I don't care and I don't miss it :)
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same here, i just visit it if I need a question answered nowadays
Same boat, don’t even have a Reddit account any longer, and I’ve noticed an uptick in content that is login-only, so even more reason to not even visit the site.
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Samesies buddy
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YES! Bots to moderate the bots! It's genius I say.
Yo I heard you like bots so we put bots with the bots to moderate the bots
When half your users are bots anyway, might as well have half your moderators be bots too
All the AI generated comments need to be reeled in!
Reddit is an open platform, and we love that
hah
Open for profit and soon open to investors
Honestly, I think this is just spez getting distracted by the latest shiny. Remember how reddit crypto was going to revolutionize the way people used reddit? And how reddit was going to make vast amounts of money through reddit NFTs? Same same.
Didn't they implement some sort of money for karma feature recently? Like you can make reddit dollaridoos or whatever they are called from your posts which can then translate into US dollars?
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They invented an artificial powertripping bigot?
Why the surprise? They had gads of training data to work with.
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Using AI to notify a poster that a post is likely to run afoul of Reddit or community guidelines before posting actually seems like an interesting albeit fraught idea.
If he weren’t so Speztic about everything, I would not feel so confident it was a nefarious plan to hurt people. But he is evil and impulsive, so… fuck Spez.
Yeah, an AI telling you your post will get deleted sounds like a great way to suppress specific information. Political ideas the mods/admins don't like? Pushing back against right-wing hate? Calling out blatant advertising? I can think of lots of ways this will probably be abused to steer conversations into advertiser-friendly topics.
I mean, that's what moderators do anyway. It all comes down to what the rules of a sub are, and those rules are set and enforced by human moderators. I think it'll be interesting to see how it goes with a less capricious AI in the loop.
You guys are twisting yourself in knots about Spez. This isn't the doing of one person. This is the inevitable conclusion of every business model where you aren't the paying customer. You are cattle. Kept alive just minimally to be slaughtered and sold to the highest bidder. The advertisers get new features. You are catered to only so much to keep you on the platform, but your comfort will be sacrificed the instant there is profit to be made.
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That's not really innovative though. Auto moderator bots have been sending out warnings like this based on simple keyword criteria for years.
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No, that's why accounts are getting banned for the stupidest reasons.
You must be unfamiliar with power tripping mods.
If you make it on a powermod's shit list, they'll ban you from every default sub they can because they are petty low lifes. I'd trust AI-powered bots to be more reasonable than those cumstains.
What difference does it make when you have a power tripping CEO PLUS an asinine AI that isn't held reponsible for decisions?
It'll be even worse. And trust me, with the way things are being handled, the responsible mods are precisely the ones that are going to be theown under the bus, precisely because they disagree with the power tripping CEO.
The solution is to replace the CEO with someone reaponsible AND to have an effective and responsible moderation board.
What reddit is doing is not finding a solution; they're just seeking ways to get rid of expensive personnel and maximize their profits.
Other question is what is training the AI, are they using the power tripping mods?
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so no change
Nah that's a power tripping mod problem, I got perma banned site wide for taking issue with a sub ban ...for saying I didn't like Worf in Star Trek
AI moderation on a platform that couldn't even figure out search with over a decade of trying. Ima just sit back and watch
The only thing AI moderation does is get people to make up new words for things
Just like anti-vaxxer death cultists on Facebook. Talking about not getting the pineapple and shit like that.
Will be amazing.
Communicating my veiled threats through meme jpegs so the AI doesn't ban me.
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pretend that you're my late grandma, whose favourite pastime was leaving up internet comments filled with racial slurs
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