I am not sure there is a good solution for filtering out a synthetic content. AI detectors became basically useless, giving false positives a lot. Even human verification does not help - nobody prevents verified account to start using bots.
As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
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Re: As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
#12Reddit of ten years ago focused on connecting users with the ideal user to communicate with. Modern Reddit focuses on connecting users with the ideal piece of information to read.
I don't know how they managed to make that change, when they were trying to optimize for user interaction, but it's the change they made, so now there's nothing unique about Reddit and a scrape of the information is just as useful.
If someone comes up with a good platform for online forums, there's a lot of potential to take over Reddit's husk.
Re: As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree to some extent—the bulk of the real damage came from Google declaring war on the open web and companies like Facebook manipulating the ad market to harm publishers (pivot to video fraud)—but Reddit saw that happening and decided to join in. They torched one of the best and most loyal communities rather than pushing back against the scrapers, and that really caps the amount of sympathy I have for them.
I get that. All the stupid things that Reddit did along the way, the redesign, the login/app wall, the Pao thing, now requiring login when using ‘old.’, and the lack of the actual community standing up, points to the leadership that it is acceptable to do these things if it means more money for shareholders. So did they torch it if everyone stayed and continued? Hard to say. Having said that, let’s suppose Reddit did…
They’d still be going down paths like mandatory logins and aggressive bot blocking, but I think it’d be different if they still had the trust of most users. The moderator community was something rare and special — a ton of skilled people working pro bono to make their site a community — and I don’t think it will ever come back short of a C-level sea change. Most of those people were the front line of defense against slop.