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Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth

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Re: Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth

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Post by simianwords »

I'm tracking Reddit vs LLM thing somewhat. As much as I hate Reddit, I truly believe it is a net good and probably a big reason LLMs are useful now.

In my cute investigation, I found that only Claude doesn't have access to Reddit posts whereas every other app like Grok, ChatGPT indexes it.

https://simianwords.bearblog.dev/investigating-the-hidden-mo...

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Reddit has unfortunately fallen into a local maxima of people with a certain type of progressive view and you would get heavily downvoted for anything that opposes it. Even the old adage of "reddit is the only place you can get organic reviews of products" doesn't hold up anymore. At the moment Reddit doesn't seem to offer anything other than a sort of anonymous Facebook groups thingy - subreddits for extremely niche hobbies and discussions on neighbourhoods like /r/berlin.

Other than that, what signal does Reddit really give? And where?

Re: Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth

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Post by ricardobeat »

They killed their own product by allowing toxic communities to flourish, the disastrous redesign, walling off their web content to push their mobile app and force signups, closing off their API, etc; and more recently allowing AI-generated content to grow unchecked.

Re: Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth

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Post by ricardobeat »

Rabbit504030201 wrote: post #8
toomuchtodo wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit considers Face ID to combat spam - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486731 - March 2026 Reddit is being spammed by AI bots, and it’s all Reddit’s fault - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44417497 - June 2025 Unauthorised AI Bots on Reddit are Eroding Sociality - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43821600 - April 2025 Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later - htt…

"I personally am fairly convinced" "It was 100% obvious a few years ago that there was a lot of manipulation going on." so no proof then

It takes three minutes of browsing Reddit to realize 1/3 of the top posts, and a lot of the comments are AI bots.

Re: Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth

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Post by r0fl »

ricardobeat wrote: post #12

They killed their own product by allowing toxic communities to flourish, the disastrous redesign, walling off their web content to push their mobile app and force signups, closing off their API, etc; and more recently allowing AI-generated content to grow unchecked.

I’m shocked Google does not delist Reddit for their shitty web experience

If you are on mobile and you are not signed in you get the entire free site walled unless you sign in or go use the app

Google is supposed to show the best content at the top

Apart from those fake spyware pop ups I cannot think of a worse surfing experience

Re: Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth

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Post by lostlogin »

r0fl wrote: post #15
ricardobeat wrote: post #12

They killed their own product by allowing toxic communities to flourish, the disastrous redesign, walling off their web content to push their mobile app and force signups, closing off their API, etc; and more recently allowing AI-generated content to grow unchecked.

I’m shocked Google does not delist Reddit for their shitty web experience If you are on mobile and you are not signed in you get the entire free site walled unless you sign in or go use the app Google is supposed to show the best content at the top Apart from those fake spyware pop ups I cannot think of a worse surfing experience

> Google is supposed to show the best content at the top

Unless it’s showing adverts first.

Re: Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth

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Post by lostlogin »

xvxvx wrote: post #2

Reddit is my warning flag when AI gives me an answer. If I see Reddit linked, I know to disregard the answer entirely. They may as well be scraping 4chan.

If you want a decent review of something, you could do a lot worse than Reddit.

But they do seem to be trying to destroy themselves at the moment.

Re: Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

xvxvx wrote: post #2

Reddit is my warning flag when AI gives me an answer. If I see Reddit linked, I know to disregard the answer entirely. They may as well be scraping 4chan.

Common Crawl is heavily populated with reddit threads

So a massive chunk of LLMs are Reddit data

Re: Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

ricardobeat wrote: post #12

They killed their own product by allowing toxic communities to flourish, the disastrous redesign, walling off their web content to push their mobile app and force signups, closing off their API, etc; and more recently allowing AI-generated content to grow unchecked.

I started/run a old and moderately popular sub (top 100 in sports) and haven’t noticed any issues that we haven’t dealt with before.

We shut down during the blackout so it’s not like it’s all been easy.

I got stock a couple years ago, that’s about it and I thought that was nice having been on Reddit since 2006 or whatever.

That said we’re not a trash sub and take moderation extremely seriously.

Re: Reddit Stock Collapses 23% as AI Eats Away at User Growth

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Post by ccgreg »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #18
xvxvx wrote: post #2

Reddit is my warning flag when AI gives me an answer. If I see Reddit linked, I know to disregard the answer entirely. They may as well be scraping 4chan.

Common Crawl is heavily populated with reddit threads So a massive chunk of LLMs are Reddit data

That isn't true. You're welcome to peruse our index to prove or disprove your claim.
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