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Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base' (www.404media.co)

submitted 9 months ago by rinze@infosec.pub to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Reddit said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its users’ posts are “a valuable source of conversation data and knowledge” that has been and will continue to be an important mechanism for training AI and large language models. The filing also states that the company believes “we are in the early stages of monetizing our user base,” and proceeds to say that it will continue to sell users’ content to companies that want to train LLMs and that it will also begin “increased use of artificial intelligence in our advertising solutions.”

The long-awaited S-1 filing reveals much of what Reddit users knew and feared: That many of the changes the company has made over the last year in the leadup to an IPO are focused on exerting control over the site, sanitizing parts of the platform, and monetizing user data.

Posting here because of the privacy implications of all this, but I wonder if at some point there should be an "Enshittification" community :-)

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[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

When I go to some reddit posts on Mobile now (like from a Google search, that's the only way I end up at reddit anymore), it tells me "this content is unmoderated" and gives me a choice to either navigate away or install the Reddit app. Fuck that noise.

[–] alekradic@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Try this, in either Bing/Copilot AI or Google Gemini: Start your prompt with "According to Reddit", then do your search like you would by using search alone.

The AI of your choice will scrape the posts and give you a nice summary of whatever you were searching for - no need to ever touch Reddit directly.

For me, this works better with Copilot, YMMV.

Example: "According to Reddit, what is the best mechanical keyboard brand to use for touch typing?"

[–] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

or i can just add "site:reddit.com" to a normal search. meh.

[–] alekradic@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely! What I am suggesting here is: since Reddit is so gung ho on AI, use the AI to bring them to their knees, and have some fun while doing it. 😬

[–] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

how exactly do you think that would bring reddit to their knees?

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does that allow you to bypass the "open in app or navigate away" wall?

[–] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I never see that because all my devices are setup to redirect to old.reddit.com

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 6 points 9 months ago

Change the URL to old.reddit.com as the domain