To be honest, even before AI it felt like a lot of product recommendations were fake.
The part that bothers me isn’t the AI, it’s that nobody in those threads was writing a review. They were talking to each other. Reddit took a conversation between people and sold it as a product, and the people get nothing, not even the choice to opt out.
I run a forum, so I thought about this when writing the terms. What we ended up with is simple. What you write is yours, you can export all of it any time, and it’s out of AI training unless you say otherwise. It cost me nothing to promise, it would cost Reddit a product line. That’s the whole difference.
How can we poison the well?
Reddit has become its own worst enemy.
A few years ago discovered excluding some usernames from a product search can turn reddit results from dozens of hits to none. I noticed those accounts were in all likelihood using keyword notifcations so they could reply to any post mentioning certain model numbers.
In the era of billions of different models of products, there really isn’t many people writing about everything. What you get outside of the popular brands and models is nothing at all.
It’s more of a red flag than anything if I go looking for reviews and find too much posting about a random product model that isn’t a household brand name or obviously popular model. If it’s a popular item then I wouldn’t have needed to be digging through the internet for reddit comments anyway.
Spez is seriously destroying Reddit.
Already destroyed
This will absolutely print money. Ad companies and normies will unironically loooove this.
Long term, I expect this will accelerate astroturfing and obliterate whatever credibility remains on Reddit. But, Reddit was already heading in that direction anyway and 99% of people couldn’t care less, so this will make bank.
Fuck spez.
Yes. Normies and non-normies alike have used Reddit as a goldmine for reviews & advice on niche products. Because it was generally real people giving real advice, and bullshit ads were downvoted.
This will incentivize abusive behavior and lead to it no longer functioning as a place you can reasonably expect real people/
My only reason for going back is for /r/cfb because there is no good coverage of college football on lemmy that compares. At least not that I have found
This is not reddit, even empty communities with one post get seen by people, I made a few in the past on different accounts, instantly got discussions, just only had like one other poster if that
Only option there is use rss or reddit and share them here to discuss them, most posts do seem to get traction if they are made here for any topic, they just have to exist. Like enough to have a discussion at least.
From the website that recommended the use of PVA glue to increase the tackiness of pizza cheese.
Hey if it works it works
What percentage of “user”-generated content on Reddit is slop now? And that’ll be fodder for the review AI?
It’s an ouroboros of shit, but it can’t even eat its own tail because it’s pumping out so much shit that it’s somehow getting larger!
Right? This just feels like a scheme to “launder” astroturfing and make it seem more legitimate.
What percentage of “user”-generated content on Reddit is slop now?
I know it’s not a popular opinion, but very little of it is.
I’m not saying there’s none - not saying that at all - but as far as your average thread where everyone is posting about all the other comments being AI generated… it’s very tedious and obviously untrue.
If you have one well moderated forum for normal users and a shit one nobody goes to, the bots will show up at the latter.
If the AI review function doesn’t tell the difference, the bombardment of fakes in the second will tilt review summaries significantly
This matches what I see from the mod side. Bots go where moderation is cheap. The only thing that has worked for me is making every removal public with a reason and letting anyone promote their own product openly with a label and a cooldown. When promotion is allowed in the open, there’s much less reason to fake it.
That’s one way to circumvent adblockers. Just turn your entire site into the ad…
This makes a lot of sense for Reddit. Genuine discussions about things being turned into reviews is a pretty damn good use of AI. But I also really hate the idea as a user (well, not of Reddit anymore lol). If I was having a genuine discussion about Leatherman pliers, my target is the people I’m in a discussion with and not a general audience. It is invasive to turn that into a review. That candidness is probably extremely valuable though.
That said it’s already being done by Google and everybody else. This is just being a bit more direct about it.
It reminds me of this person I know who always steers the conversation into what he is interested in. It feels like a bad faith conversation, and if I can’t downvote and discourage that, what is left?
Lol
Hey are you rick?
I think they’re Rick!
Think again. If you’re looking for Rick, you gotta look somewhere else
Such a Rick thing to say!
(Fixed Suck to Such*)
Suck a Rick
NO THANKS
Damnit! Spell check can’t catch me!
i bet Rick can, though! :)
3rd party ai companies were already doing that, so they went “why shouldn’t i keep it?” meme
