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As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal (www.pcmag.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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[–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I agree in general with you, but AI adds a wrinkle. Wouldn't surprise me at all if AI generated content continues to amuse the casual doomscrollers and reddit serves up a lot of ads to those mindless suckers and makes money for years with that model.

Doesn't hurt us, though. We can move on and do our thing here in the Fediverse.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    AI posting + low standards does throw a monkey wrench in my reasoning, but not a big one: that AI will be available first for Alphabet/Google, Microsoft and Meta/Facebook, as they're the ones developing this stuff. And they happen to have services that overlap in functionality with Reddit, at least for people who are fine with AI-generated content.

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