imagine ruining reddit
AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone
Submitted 1 month ago by Hubi@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-slop-is-ruining-reddit-for-everyone/
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nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
watson@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not for me! I left that place years ago…
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, I’ve noticed an uptic of AI generated content being posted outside the AI circle jerk subreddits. Places like the AoE4 and Bionicle subreddits have had quite a number of AI posts already.
Theyve become too courageous, with others going out of the way to defend the use of generative AI with weak arguments like “but cars also steal jobs”.
The one subreddit that I’ve seen have a healthy response against AI generated content is the Bionicle subreddit. Doesn’t really surprise me as the Bionicle community is full of creatives.
pulsey@feddit.org 1 month ago
“stealing jobs” is a weak argument itself, that can always happen with new technology.
The real argument is that people create something uncreative and unthoughtful and therefore slop. AI doesnt make uncreative people creative.
fodor@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Is? It’s done already. But the bots got there years ago, so who really cares about now.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I regret wasting all those years trying to fight back all the bots I flagged on that hot garbage platform.
But I’m grateful that I gained skills on how to identify an LLM bot from a mile away.
Now that they’re starting to creep in Lemmy, I’m prepared.
glowie@infosec.pub 1 month ago
You’re absolutely right
MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 1 month ago
Let’s be real…Reddit itself is moderated by AI.
People who moderate subs should be called “hall monitors” or something. It’s rare to find moderators who are actually moderating with impartiality, rather that being petty and taking sides. They also have tools to exploit the Reddit auto-mod system.
It was enshitified ages ago.
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 1 month ago
There’s no point in taking moderation seriously. It’s a volunteer position and the tools to handle slop aren’t there.
I hear they’re bringing back digg.
I also hear it’s a former Reddit C-suite that’s bringing it back, so it’ll probably be more of the same.
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I went on reddit yesterday just for a minute. Saw a post about some guy asking what he could do with a small hallway like space in his house (imagine a small walk in closet without the door). Almost every response I opened up was an AI generated image. That thread alone probably wasted a small swimming pool of water just cause some people couldn’t be arsed to copy and paste a server rack.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 month ago
For all the criticism of AI, this is the one that’s massively overstated.
On my PC, the task energy of a casual diffusion attempt (let’s say a dozen+ images in few batches) on a Flux-tier model is 300W * 240 seconds.
That’s 54 kilojoules.
…That’s less than microwaving leftovers, or a few folks browsing this Lemmy thread on laptops.
And cloud models like Nano Banana are more efficient than that, batching the heck out of generations on wider, more modern hardware, and more modern architectures, than my 3090 from 2020.
…Look. There are a million reasons corporate AI is crap.
But its power consumption is a meme perpetuated by tech bros who want to convince the world scaling infinitely is the only way to advance it. That is a lie to get them money. And it is not the way research is headed.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Here’s the thing though, Reddit provided a lot of AI training data. Now AI content is ruining Reddit. This is like a large corporation making millions off cider and then destroying the orchard.
motor_spirit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
reddit was ruined by reddit
it’s just evidence that the site went the way of social media and is saturated with people who circulate such things
y0kai@anarchist.nexus 1 month ago
lmfao no, corporate greed and “shareholder value” is ruining both AI and reddit (and pretty much everything else) for everyone.
Gobbel2000@programming.dev 1 month ago
Nope, can’t ruin it for me because I have left this cursed place.
etherphon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah right I remember the good old wholesome days of jailbait.
chaogomu@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oddly, that was Spez, and when he went away for a bit, Reddit got really good. And then he came back and it went to shit.
etherphon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Right I remember how Reddit ran Ellen Pao off as if she was the wicked witch of the west.
Minimac@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Lemmy way better than Reddit
BuckenBerry@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
That’s mostly a result of obscurity.
87Six@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Doesn’t make it any less better. It sucks that the second something becomes mainstream, it gets sloppified imediatelly. Look at Reddit, Discord…
ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
True and true.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Everyone? Lol. Was this written by an idiot that still uses Reddit as their main outlet?
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Reddit is now Facebook 2.0.
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Reddit has been ruined for a while now, this is just it getting worse.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s ruining everthing it touches. Reddit is far from the only victim of that garbage.
super_user_do@feddit.it 1 month ago
I hate that now there’s even automated profiles managed by AIs which basically ragebait constantly on normal subreddits. And im not even talking about large ones. Heck this must be the worst psyop ever made in recent history
finitebanjo@piefed.world 1 month ago
I’m amazed that anybody could even be surprised at this end result. We truly live with some moronic apes on this earth.
notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nazi sympathizing has already ruined Reddit.
That shithole has been sanitized for advertisers, which means banning anyone who talks about resisting the fascist slide America is currently in but allows /r/conservative to exist for foreign actors to spread misinformation from.
Fuck Reddit, fuck Spez, those Nazi fucks will get what’s coming to them if we’re lucky.
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Did spez change his name to AI?
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I like to amuse myself on reddit. If my comment is getting downvoted I might delete it and repost it. Then it usually gets upvoted. It just shows the groupthink on reddit where you get “Oh, this got down/up voted, guess I’ll do it too.”
DeICEAmerica@lemmy.world 1 month ago
When the admins started getting marching order to squash any and all talks of making the rich accountable for their crimes against humanity, it was ruined. Even hint at an uprising and you get banned.
cygnus@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Default subs were already heavily astroturfed garbage. Smaller subs still generally fly under the radar, for now at least.
Az_1@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Who was this a surprise to exactly?
Alpha71@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh My God, Who CARES!? I left Reddit for here awhile ago. The only reason I keep a single account there, is if they have a solution to a problem I have and have to look it up.
tea@lemmy.today 1 month ago
You don’t need an account for that, really. I haven’t logged into Reddit since the API enshitification wave.
nomy@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Same, came over during the first API fuckery wave and haven’t gone back at all. I might not have much but I have principles, fuck em.
heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Just pouring gas on the existing dumpster fire
GarbadgeGoober@feddit.org 1 month ago
I am thankful for reddit becoming a mess and Trump made me ditch american companies anyway.
Otherwise I never would have discovered Lemmy.
ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Good…GOOD