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AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone
Submitted 1 day ago by Hubi@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-slop-is-ruining-reddit-for-everyone/
Comments
emb@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes. But, to perhaps a lower extent, this headline is also true if you change ‘Reddit’ to ‘the internet’.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yup very true. Even parts of Lemmy are showing brain rot, some instances are trying to limit to actual humans but there are ways around it.
Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Or “most things” even.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The World Wide Web, the Internet is the physical network and servers upon which many software stacks run including the Web.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
imagine ruining reddit
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It’s ruining far more than reddit.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Good…GOOD
ekZepp@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day 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.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
Reddit was ruined long before AI came into the picture. that place hasn’t been good for a decade.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 1 day 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 day ago
You’re absolutely right
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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 21 hours 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.
Az_1@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Who was this a surprise to exactly?
watson@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not for me! I left that place years ago…
Alpha71@lemmy.world 20 hours 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 19 hours ago
You don’t need an account for that, really. I haven’t logged into Reddit since the API enshitification wave.
nomy@lemmy.zip 18 hours 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.
Gobbel2000@programming.dev 1 day ago
Nope, can’t ruin it for me because I have left this cursed place.
motor_spirit@lemmy.world 1 day 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 day ago
lmfao no, corporate greed and “shareholder value” is ruining both AI and reddit (and pretty much everything else) for everyone.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 day 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 day 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.
etherphon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah right I remember the good old wholesome days of jailbait.
chaogomu@lemmy.world 1 day 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 day ago
Right I remember how Reddit ran Ellen Pao off as if she was the wicked witch of the west.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Everyone? Lol. Was this written by an idiot that still uses Reddit as their main outlet?
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Reddit is now Facebook 2.0.
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Reddit has been ruined for a while now, this is just it getting worse.
finitebanjo@piefed.world 1 day ago
I’m amazed that anybody could even be surprised at this end result. We truly live with some moronic apes on this earth.
cygnus@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Default subs were already heavily astroturfed garbage. Smaller subs still generally fly under the radar, for now at least.
Teknikal@eviltoast.org 1 day ago
I thought the whole point of reddit was it was self moderating, downvotes slip from view but yeah after being banned for saying a word as offensive as Brexit and once again for saying a song title.
Yeah Reddit is garbage and the unneeded mods made it that way.
heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Just pouring gas on the existing dumpster fire
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
*was considered. Probably
bbb@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
all clankers should be segregated from society
fodor@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Is? It’s done already. But the bots got there years ago, so who really cares about now.