Technology

How better to celebrate the 2-year anniversary of Rexit?

Connecting ads masquerading as posts to bot posts shilling the same crap, got it

"When I'm cutting people off in traffic, illegally parking in handicap spaces, and racing at 100 mph through school zones, I rely on my Dodge Ram pickup to get it done!"

If it wasn't for the AI nonsense, this could've actually been a great idea.

Businesses might want to use Reddit comments as ads.

Reddit says "Hey, let us find those glowing reviews that we have as Reddit comments, and you can link directly to the original source!"

Then the original comment writer could edit their comments to call political figures pedos, and businesses learn their lesson that this kind of stuff is not suited for using Reddit as a primary source, lol

So they’re going to take what was once the best place for honest reviews and make it shittier.

Glad they don’t have an API or it would make the internet worse.

Quotes from the original announcement:

Today, Reddit is the most human place on the internet, and one of the last places on the internet where brands can build authentic, trusted and engaged relationships with customers.

Bwahaha, "most human"? Really? Wow.

A scalable, AI-powered social listening tool designed to unlock strategic value

Barf. Oh boy, "social listening tool" - that's a new one...

These are tools for a new era of community marketing, one where brands can tap into Reddit’s authenticity

Yup, because nothing says "authenticity" like artificially realigned messages interspersed with AI slop ads. Such real, much authentic, wow...

I wonder how far you can push this? Like there was a whole subreddit (can't remember the name) that was dedicated to news that seems positive on the surface but is actually fucked up when you take 2 seconds to think. Could you just get chatgpt to come up with a way to positively frame the worst shit specifically to bait adds next to it?

"dynamically integrates positive content from Reddit users directly below an advertiser’s creative, putting community conversations front-and-center in the user experience and blending AI-driven efficiency with real human perspectives".

the company is also introducing a “scalable, AI-powered social listening tool. [...] Informed by proprietary metadata, it provides precise, real-time insights that help marketers confidently plan campaigns, validate creative ideas, and make smarter business decisions"

I wonder how much they had to pay a business major to come up with those sentences, or did they just use ChatGPT ....

Reddit feels like walking into a creepy anamatronic exibit alone at night. You keep looking for someone to ask where the exit is, and occasionally you bump into another warm blooded creature that is sometimes human, but you slowly start to realise that most of those shadowy figures aren't alive. You're trapped there until you start listening for the real music softly calling below the ambient noise of the exhibit in the distance.

Seems like being banned from Reddit was a blessing.

Because Reddit is a nazi sympathizing, brown shirt wearing shithole for jack booted thugs and fascists. It all started when some cunt at Reddit thought “what if my user base was a product?”, and thus the en-digg-ification of Reddit was complete.

Fuck that fascist friendly corpo shithole, it belongs in the dumpster next to Digg.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

I have no doubt a way will be found to use this against the companies that deserve it, looking forward to the memes this will produce

This wouldn't be an issue if Reddit always attached relevant posts, including negative ones even if those were the minority, to actually help people make a more informed judgement about an ad based on community sentiment, but I think we all know that won't be the way this goes.

Posts will inevitably only be linked if they are positive, or at the very least neutral about the product being advertised, because that's what would allow Reddit to sell advertisers on their higher ROI. The bandwagon effect is a real psychological effect, and Reddit knows it.

One more reason to be glad I ditched that hellpit.

Spez uses his doomsday bunker as a cat sex dungeon.

Thankfully, there’s Lemmy. Makes me appreciate it even more when I read stuff like this.

Reddit already had ads that appeared in subs that looked like posts with some tiny text saying it's an ad. This'll make it even more insufferable. screw Spez

Wew, my raging negativity will keep them from buying my data then.

Joke's on them. I just post and comment negative rants.

Spez needs to fund his spezial needs somehow

Basically this means nothing will happen, because Reddit is the most negative space in the world.