Technology

Good.

Finally some good AI news!

Is Reddit just bots talking to eachother now? Soon bots will make trades on the prediction market apps and the stock market. Bots will be allowed to own money and become billionaires. Then our human billionaire overlords will be replaced with bot ai billionaire overlords. Then they will remake the Terminator movies, but with the humans as bad guys. John Connor goes back in time to murder a roomba while one of those Chinese falling over robots tries to stop him.

My 15 year old account with 600k karma and impeccable record was banned because I made a harmless joke about Republicans. Reddit has turned into a fucking joke. Every post is engagement bait and every top comment is some stupid fucking joke/ pun.

I wish this actually affected that stupid asshole Spez.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I'm almost glad Reddit permbanned me two months ago. It's a shame Anonymous hasn't tried to DDoS u/Spez. Reddit needs the Ol' Yeller treatment.

Most people on the internet are lurkers. Most up votes and comments come from maybe 20% of people who actually look at posts. I figured this out within a few weeks of using the Internet. They're quite literally biting the hand that feeds them. They're betting you'd rather make a Redddit account than not visit, except that plan no longer holds water in the AI age.

Now AI is probably pushing engagement up artificially. Fewer and fewer real humans will react to posts on the basis that it may not be real, even if they are. So you have a situation where AI interactions increase in proportion to human ones, while also getting more expensive, and pushing out your income stream at the same time.

This kind of boundless stupidity isn't even really seen, because everyone else is doing as well. People point it out, but we have no real metric for how bad it's until the stock price starts the slip. Whatever stock of good faith users Reddit once had, are now a dwindling resource, replaced by people trying to game the system.

We cannot stop this in a way that matters. The only way past this shit AI era, is through it.

aw shucks

What I think of reddit:

If it hasn't already moved onto the garbage heap, alongside it's precedessors, it's not long now.

Fuck reddit.

You love to see it

Reddit, AI, can it all just die

"What's behind the move: The user discussion platform company's latest earnings report did not announce any new artificial intelligence data licensing agreements, disappointing investors who were expecting more revenue opportunities from AI partnerships.

Revenue of $804.9 million beat estimates of $731.8 million. However, US daily active users came in at 53.2 million, just shy of expectations of 54 million. The company's total daily active users grew by 18% to 130.3 million versus estimates of 130.07 million. "

Lmao. 53.2 vs 54, and the headline says that's why it's tumbling? Nah, it's gotta be just the AI. I bet most of the reddit investors were also invested in AI stock and wanted to use reddit to pump the others. Hilarious. The entire value of Reddit is human UGC.