6mo ago

reddit has its own AI feature now

Not sure if anyone else noticed but reddit is now testing a beta of an answers feature that generates answers based on reddit posts. Maybe this explains the phenomena people noticed of deleting posts only to have their posts reappear? Just saying if reddit was already bad for privacy it just got worse in my opinion.

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Every day I'm happier and happier that I left Reddit.
- I wonder what’s different on lemmy though. At the end of the day, this platform is just another platform on the internet which almost anybody have access to. Sure AI use is not on the ToS. But anything open access is assumed to be privacy unfriendly anyway. If it’s the dm feature, it’s a different story.
  
  DMs on Lemmy are not secure FYI
  
  The difference is I (the contributor of content) have the same access as anyone else to the data, and could use it for my own purposes if I wanted to.
  On a platform like reddit, access to the raw data is controlled and cannot be format shifted / used in any way I wanted to.
Do you have a link or something to further dig into this?
I think we all knew this was coming though, considering Reddit is still popular to find specific answers that SEO riddled adware websites won't be able to give.
- to find specific answers that SEO riddled adware websites won't be able to give.
  online tool at the core of the old internet got gutted so Sundar the creep can sell you Nike sneakers that you were going to buy anyway!
I hope all of my comments that were highly upvoted, edited to nonsense before leaving, yet still to this day get occasional replies, got sucked into the dataset.
- That’s great 😅
Leveraging the tendancy for everyone frustated with shit search results due to SEO to slap site:reddit.com on the end, and enshittifying it (coz any AI they can train (also any AI, but moreso) will mangle the shit out of it, seriously reddit is not enough data). Way to dilute your brand for a headline. Morons.
Had it for quite a while, in case you didn't notice
- Yep, and it sucks. Just like most of reddit.
  
  Unfortunately, ye
Time to crank up their openAI bill 😎😎
Facebook has started using AI bots to boost engagement (and revenue). Is Reddit trying to do the same thing?
- I see a ton of fake comments on polarized topics. They start off as a somewhat normal back-and-forth but if you follow it down the funnel thread eventually one commenter will stop making sense. I thought it was a propaganda/pr thing but I guess it could be bots. I’ve seen it on the privacy sub too.
  
  Maybe it’s automated propaganda and opinion steering.

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