Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoAdditionally additionally, as it says in the article, reddit sells its content to OpenAI, and in order to do that, they need it to be organic. If you feed AI output back info AI, it makes the output worse, not better. So, there’s another financial incentive to ensure that the people talking on reddit are actually human.
I would like to remind you of two things. The first is that reddit user to have a mod tool called “BotDefense”. It’s shutdown in July of 2023 directly lead to a major uptick in Spam Bots.
The second is that part of the ad revenue is “impressions”. Impressions are just an account (bot or human) “viewing” the ad and they do not require a click-through. The platform hosting the ad still gets paid for those.
If openai kept buying reddit data after 2022, they are idiots. They let the cat out of the bag.
they are selling it to both OPENAI and google for thier AI too.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 months ago
Yeh but feeding reddit user output into AI is part of the reason why AI is so confidently incorrect so often.