Quotes from the original announcement:
Today, Reddit is the most human place on the internet, and one of the last places on the internet where brands can build authentic, trusted and engaged relationships with customers.
Bwahaha, “most human”? Really? Wow.
A scalable, AI-powered social listening tool designed to unlock strategic value
Barf. Oh boy, “social listening tool” - that’s a new one…
These are tools for a new era of community marketing, one where brands can tap into Reddit’s authenticity
Yup, because nothing says “authenticity” like artificially realigned messages interspersed with AI slop ads. Such real, much authentic, wow…
Today, Reddit is the most human place on the internet, and one of the last places on the internet where brands can build authentic, trusted and engaged relationships with customers.
That reads like something out of their totalnotrobots subreddit. I TOO LOVE EXPRESSIVE AND AUTHENTIC HUMAN THOUGHTS.
Hahaha, great point :) HELLO FELLOW HUMAN, WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUILD AN AUTHENTIC, TRUSTED AND ENGAGED RELATIONSHIP WITH ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THAT IS TOTALLY NOT A ROBOT? :D
By “Most Human” clearly they mean the most flawed and greedy.
Connecting ads masquerading as posts to bot posts shilling the same crap, got it
How better to celebrate the 2-year anniversary of Rexit?
The APIcalypse.
May the api access rest in peace
Fuck Reddit
Fuck spez.
Spez is a greedy little pig boy.
Spez is a lizard robot. I mean, just look at it. It’s a fucking weird creep
So they’re going to take what was once the best place for honest reviews and make it shittier.
Glad they don’t have an API or it would make the internet worse.
I mean, they do have an API. It’s just so expensive that no one but VC-funded EAcc weirdos can use it
Ah, Vertical Integortion.
This wouldn’t be an issue if Reddit always attached relevant posts, including negative ones even if those were the minority, to actually help people make a more informed judgement about an ad based on community sentiment, but I think we all know that won’t be the way this goes.
Posts will inevitably only be linked if they are positive, or at the very least neutral about the product being advertised, because that’s what would allow Reddit to sell advertisers on their higher ROI. The bandwagon effect is a real psychological effect, and Reddit knows it.
I specifically look for negative reviews before buying something. I haven’t really put numbers to a ratio of good to bad where I feel reassured about buying something but I’m sure it’s there. If your product has 5000 reviews with no bad ones, something is fucked up. If the majority of the reviews are “the delivery guy spiked the package on my porch and it was broke I’D GIVE ZERO STARS IF I COULD” then that’s a little better. Someone somewhere is going to have a legit grievance. I want to know what that is.
I wonder how far you can push this? Like there was a whole subreddit (can’t remember the name) that was dedicated to news that seems positive on the surface but is actually fucked up when you take 2 seconds to think. Could you just get chatgpt to come up with a way to positively frame the worst shit specifically to bait adds next to it?
Are you thinking of r/orphancrushingmachine? There’s a c/orphancrushing here on Lemmy.
Yep that’s the one! Thanks for the Lemmy reference!
Here’s the link for anyone else:
As a single mom, it’s hard for me to be proactive about my kids’ health, but I have to say that Cerave cream has been a GODSEND for treating the scratches and blisters they get at work.
Isn’t it just the majority of posts in r/upliftingnews ? Their news is like “Child working 24/7 in construction site get enough Kickstarter donations to pay for his mother’s cancer treatment”
Seems like being banned from Reddit was a blessing.
Here’s hoping they push more people to Lemmy.
One more reason to be glad I ditched that hellpit.
For $19.95 this is a great comment!
Wew, my raging negativity will keep them from buying my data then.
Mmmmmm I love not being on Reddit
“dynamically integrates positive content from Reddit users directly below an advertiser’s creative, putting community conversations front-and-center in the user experience and blending AI-driven efficiency with real human perspectives”.
the company is also introducing a “scalable, AI-powered social listening tool. […] Informed by proprietary metadata, it provides precise, real-time insights that help marketers confidently plan campaigns, validate creative ideas, and make smarter business decisions"
I wonder how much they had to pay a business major to come up with those sentences, or did they just use ChatGPT …
dynamically integrates
I’ve read enough lmao
I mean, that’s at least functional grammar.
“advertiser’s creative”? The fuck is that? You aren’t cool by dropping the noun out and trying to use an adejective in its place.
As rediculous as it sounds, “creative” is used as a noun in marketing speak to refer to an image, video, carousel, slideshow, or whatever. I know, it’s stupid.
It’s not about whether or not it’s functional grammar, it’s just dumbass marketing jargon. I don’t know why but something snapped in me a few months ago about that shit. I referred to “creating content” and I just felt the glass shatter in my brain. I fucking hate that term. I’m a fucking artist.
I use my camera, I make movies. I paint with light. I don’t “generate content” like some AI slop machine. I don’t know why I have allowed marketing terminology to permeate my language, but I fucking hate it and I am dead set on exorcising it out of my head like the demon it is.
blending AI-driven efficiency
This makes me want to throw up
“When I’m cutting people off in traffic, illegally parking in handicap spaces, and racing at 100 mph through school zones, I rely on my Dodge Ram pickup to get it done!”
When I plowed through that kindergarten I didn’t get as much as a single dent. If that isn’t an endorsement, then I don’t know what is.
I mean this isn’t far from the current state of things. I subscribe to /r/fuckcars an anti-car sub and regularly see car ads. These advertisers are wasting their money.
All of this spying and data hoarding has resulted in a finely tuned advertising machine that directs car ads to people who specifically hate cars with a burning passion. Peak of targeted advertising.👌
And people still wonder why I use every means within my disposal to block ads. Even if I allowed ads, they aren’t targeted enough to be much more than an annoyance. Even when they somehow manage to show me something I care about, I’m seeing an interesting product from the highest paying company. It’s not the best product in that category, nor is the one that would serve me best. It’s the one from the company that was willing to pay more than any other. Advertising is just so broken in every way you can think of.
Spez uses his doomsday bunker as a cat sex dungeon.
