AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-slop-is-ruining-reddit-for-everyone/

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shyguyblue@lemmy.world · 151 pts · 257d (8 replies)

Reddit ruined Reddit before AI had a chance

lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 257d (6 replies)

Yeah, but now spez allows a full invasion -- and AI moderation dropping banhammers on "violent" users -- so that he would then sell off the data to anyone willing to pay him millions.

Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 257d (2 replies)

Can confirm.

One of my more ridiculous bans from reddit was "advocating violence" by joking about mosquitoes getting cancer.

Canconda@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 257d

Said I would slap someone for jump-scaring me on a video of a jump scare prank where someone was slapped. Permabanned. Even tried to appeal.

LemUser@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 255d

I got banned from a forum because someone was being racist and I called them out on it. HE IS STILL THERE.

circuscritic@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 257d

I have used Reddit for nearly 15 years, and never once received a ban/suspension, until this past year when I've received 3, all triggered by AI moderation.

Not that I'm distraught over them, but it is annoying because I use Reddit specifically for niche sports communities that just don't exist on Lemmy.

And even those communities are full of bots, so I can only imagine what the mainstream subreddits look like now.

watson@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 257d
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shyguyblue@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 255d

Spez ruined Reddit, and then gave AI the chance!

l_isqof@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 257d

Yes and no. I'm sure most of the bans from the past year are automated.

_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 58 pts · 257d (6 replies)

Greed ruined reddit, AI was just some shitsauce on top.

30p87@feddit.org · 18 pts · 257d (5 replies)

So capitalism

_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 257d (4 replies)

Capitalism also made reddit in the first place though. Greed isn't exclusive to capitalism either.

optissima@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 257d (2 replies)

No, capitalism didnt create reddit. People inspired by DIGG created reddit while living in a capitalist economy.

_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 257d (1 reply)

They're all just forums with voting, but the salient point was that they were created to make money for the people who started the company.

underisk@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 257d

If their sole motivation was making money they had plenty of way more reliable options for applying their skills than gambling on Digg shitting itself and everyone jumping onto their lifeboat. Capitalism didn’t create Reddit, people laboring under capitalism did.

30p87@feddit.org · 4 pts · 257d

Another instance of capitalism being shit

Courantdair@jlai.lu · 18 pts · 256d

AI slop is ruining Internet for everyone*

ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 257d (2 replies)

Not ruining it for me, just saying.

its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 256d (1 reply)

Would you be willing to admit it's worse than it was 15 years ago?

ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 256d

Based on the reports by other Lemmy users it sounds like it's worse.

phed@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 256d

Reddit can take a leap.

Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 255d

Greed is ruining everything for everyone.

Akasazh@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 256d

Deservedly so.

Greedy little fuck boi ruined it

its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 256d

Best sort made reddit unusable for me. Opaque systems for no reason other than revenue makes me irrationally angry.

bhamlin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 256d

Yes. The ai. That's why reddit is bad. The slop. Uh huh.

cmbabul@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 255d (3 replies)

If /r/CFB didn't exist I would never have a need to go there

Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 255d (2 replies)

Of my several hundred open Firefox tabs, /r/FreeGameFindings/new is the only Reddit tab remaining.

regedit@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 255d (1 reply)

What's a game on your list that you have been wanting (maybe a few years old, not new)?

Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 255d

I'd have to say... Space Haven? It looks kind of like the lovechild of Dungeon Keeper and RimWorld I've been hoping someone would make, and it has received excellent reviews throughout its lifetime.

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 255d

Unmoderated mods aren't helping reddit either

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 255d

FB is mostly AI slop