Reddit's CEO calls his company 'the fuel' for artificial intelligence

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/reddits-ceo-fuel-artificial-intelligence.html

“There’s no artificial intelligence without actual intelligence,” he said on “Mad Money.” “The knowledge has to come from somewhere, and Reddit is one of the primary sources for that sort of information that AI’s crave, but also that people crave.”

Reddit is one of the primary sources for that sort of information that AI’s crave

Now it all makes sense.

AI was trained on humans that don't know how to act like humans, so AI has like a double dose of uncanny valley to it.

That and it makes sense why AI uses so many emojis, cheesy one liners, and can a massive fence sitter. God forbid we get an LLM that can give a constructive, well thought out opinion.

Just like a typical Redditor, gotta get them stars and updoots.

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W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 101 pts · 88d (8 replies)

dhork@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 88d (1 reply)

Insolent peasant! You shall address him by his proper title!

King Steven the Turd, Greediest of Pigboys

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 9 pts · 88d

Moderator of r/jailbait

asthmawitch@lazysoci.al · 9 pts · 88d (1 reply)

his eyes are unseeing

lemmyng@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 88d

And unsettling

Ooops@feddit.org · 9 pts · 88d

I seriously looked up photos to see if those eyes were edited...

...and omg, this isn't even one of the worst pictures out there.

osanna@lemmy.vg · 8 pts · 88d

Awww. Pigs are smart emotionally intelligent animals. The exact opposite of spaz

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 5 pts · 88d (1 reply)

Looks like a Nazi villain straight from central casting.

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 88d

Not far off

gukleszl4hs48ughgxhr5xgd@fedia.io · 49 pts · 88d (3 replies)

Good luck with that lol. The quality of discourse on reddit has fallen off a fucking cliff the last few years; and it wasn't particularly great before that either, after years of already being on a downward trajectory. Models trained on that shit are going to be increasingly brain damaged.

Thatuserguy@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 88d (2 replies)

It's no wonder AI models are so confidently wrong all the time. That's like, redditors' MO

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 88d

That's just how the chat bots are designed. No one would use it if it prefaced every response with a qualifier like "I think" or "Its possible" etc.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 87d

Yeah, wrong information confidently asserted is 95% or more of all reddit comments. It was worse than trying to find something on stackoverflow that wasn't nonsense.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 48 pts · 89d

So AI runs on horseshit. Thought so.

ZeroCool@piefed.ca · 35 pts · 89d

Time to bust out a classic:

stupid2.png

meejle@piefed.world · 33 pts · 88d

chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 89d

Which is why when I left I salted the earth.

TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 88d

That and it makes sense why AI uses so many emojis

Except Reddit loathes emojis.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 88d

fuck /u/spez

Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 16 pts · 88d (1 reply)

Fuel: a substance famously not destroyed by using it

boydster@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 88d

Catalyst is the word he didn't know he was looking for

TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 13 pts · 88d

Is that spez?

Obligatory “fuck you, spez.”

stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 88d

If it's fuel, what happens when you take a match to it?

BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world · 6 pts · 87d (1 reply)

Half of Reddit is bots, especially Russian bots, so American AI is being trained on Russian Propaganda Bots. That explains a lot.

EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 87d

Half was bots 4 years ago, it’s easily more at this point.

shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 88d

What a massive pissbaby

_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 88d (1 reply)

This all evokes imagery of a dumpster fire to me...

bhamlin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 88d

OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 87d (2 replies)

I wonder if millennials will ever come to grips with getting older and out of touch. Will they be more like the boomer generation and clutch to their reality and force it upon the world into their geriatric years. I suspect it will be latter.

It's like they've learned nothing.

Reddit was something a solid 15 years ago. Even 10 years ago it turned to shit when the_donald overran the platform as Huffman sat idly by. These days there is no intelligence on reddit. There's petty social media bickering.

Which begs the question. Why has nobody been talking about how an ostensibly AGI like system will need AGI level data. No such thing exists. There's no dataset that captures the entirety of humanity's smartest minds. They're feeding these models random social media comments. Like, what? Am I taking crazy pills.

Boingboing_r@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 87d

Im just there to look at kitties and titties. If I think about, it seems like the original purpose of tue internet. Everything else is just superflous.

JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 86d

Why are you laying this at the feet of millenials? I don't see how an entire generation is responsible for Huffman being a cunt.

inari@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 88d

Truly frightening if you think about it

9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 88d

Brawndo is one of the primary sources for that sort of electrolytes that plants crave

postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 88d (5 replies)

So to defeat it we just need to start a pun chain or post the opening lyrics to a song?

EonNShadow@pawb.social · 2 pts · 88d

Better yet, the entirety of Bohemian Rhapsody in individual letters for an entire comment thread on askouija

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 88d

WHEN I WAS

…oh wait that’s 2007 /b/…

Etterra@discuss.online · 1 pts · 88d (2 replies)

Let's create r/saltedfields and just post nonsense like it was actual language.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 87d (1 reply)

I replaced all my comments with English-like Markov babble before leaving. Many thousands of them. Even threw in a bit of lorem ipsum just for shits and giggles.

Etterra@discuss.online · 1 pts · 87d

I wouldn't be surprised if somebody put in a filter for lorem ipsum at least.

lka1988@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 87d

Forums should never be listed on Wall Street, or monetized.

One of my absolute favorite forums, IH8MUD.com, is still owned and operated by the same dude who started it, well over 20 years ago. Auto Guide never got their hands on it, and it's still one of the best forums for Toyota tech in general at this point (looking at you, Pirate4x4 👀). The ads on 'Mud are non-intrusive and are mainly those from community vendors and other relevant companies. It's a hugely successful forum.

Karl@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 87d

Why is everyone so fixated on speedrunning an apocalypse?

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 87d

"Well there's yer problem..it ain't got no gas innit"

usernameunnecessary@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 88d

The delusion

SpeedRunner@europe.pub · 1 pts · 87d

Yeah. Nightmare fuel.

Etterra@discuss.online · 1 pts · 88d

So he's the fuel tool.

Rusticus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 87d

Unfortunately prognosis is not great for thyroid cancer. ~20% survival rate.