Connecting ads masquerading as posts to bot posts shilling the same crap, got it
Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads
Submitted 2 months ago by tonytins@pawb.social to technology@lemmy.world
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whotookkarl@lemmy.world 2 months ago
sundray@lemmus.org 2 months ago
“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!”
const_void@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I mean this isn’t far from the current state of things. I subscribe to /r/fuckcars an anti-car sub and regularly see car ads. These advertisers are wasting their money.
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 2 months ago
All of this spying and data hoarding has resulted in a finely tuned advertising machine that directs car ads to people who specifically hate cars with a burning passion. Peak of targeted advertising.
And people still wonder why I use every means within my disposal to block ads. Even if I allowed ads, they aren’t targeted enough to be much more than an annoyance. Even when they somehow manage to show me something I care about, I’m seeing an interesting product from the highest paying company. It’s not the best product in that category, nor is the one that would serve me best. It’s the one from the company that was willing to pay more than any other. Advertising is just so broken in every way you can think of.
musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 2 months ago
When I plowed through that kindergarten I didn’t get as much as a single dent. If that isn’t an endorsement, then I don’t know what is.
otp@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I enjoyed this ride.
doctortofu@reddthat.com 2 months ago
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…
nthavoc@lemmy.today 2 months ago
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.
That reads like something out of their totalnotrobots subreddit. I TOO LOVE EXPRESSIVE AND AUTHENTIC HUMAN THOUGHTS.
doctortofu@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Hahaha, great point :) HELLO FELLOW HUMAN, WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUILD AN AUTHENTIC, TRUSTED AND ENGAGED RELATIONSHIP WITH ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THAT IS TOTALLY NOT A ROBOT? :D
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
By “Most Human” clearly they mean the most flawed and greedy.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I mean, they do have an API. It’s just so expensive that no one but VC-funded EAcc weirdos can use it
Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Welcome to capitalism!
BlueLineBae@midwest.social 2 months ago
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?
judgyweevil@feddit.it 2 months ago
Isn’t it just the majority of posts in r/upliftingnews ? Their news is like “Child working 24/7 in construction site get enough Kickstarter donations to pay for his mother’s cancer treatment”
otacon239@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are you thinking of r/orphancrushingmachine? There’s a c/orphancrushing here on Lemmy.
BlueLineBae@midwest.social 2 months ago
Yep that’s the one! Thanks for the Lemmy reference!
Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As a single mom, it’s hard for me to be proactive about my kids’ health, but I have to say that Cerave cream has been a GODSEND for treating the scratches and blisters they get at work.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 months ago
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.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Five nights at Reddit
devolution@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Seems like being banned from Reddit was a blessing.
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Here’s hoping they push more people to Lemmy.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 2 months ago
One more reason to be glad I ditched that hellpit.
OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Spez uses his doomsday bunker as a cat sex dungeon.
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 2 months ago
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.
meco03211@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I specifically look for negative reviews before buying something. I haven’t really put numbers to a ratio of good to bad where I feel reassured about buying something but I’m sure it’s there. If your product has 5000 reviews with no bad ones, something is fucked up. If the majority of the reviews are “the delivery guy spiked the package on my porch and it was broke I’D GIVE ZERO STARS IF I COULD” then that’s a little better. Someone somewhere is going to have a legit grievance. I want to know what that is.
loaf@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Thankfully, there’s Lemmy. Makes me appreciate it even more when I read stuff like this.
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 2 months ago
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
Engywuck@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Joke’s on them. I just post and comment negative rants.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I post positive ways to avoid consumerism.
Rin@lemm.ee 2 months ago
then they’ll use your negativity as a reason not to buy their competition
Engywuck@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’m perfectly able to be negative about them and their competition at the same time.
noodlesreborn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mmmmmm I love not being on Reddit
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wew, my raging negativity will keep them from buying my data then.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Basically this means nothing will happen, because Reddit is the most negative space in the world.
Luouth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Spez needs to fund his spezial needs somehow
artifex@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
imdc@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Ah, Vertical Integortion.
Lexam@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For $19.95 this is a great comment!
DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How better to celebrate the 2-year anniversary of Rexit?