I wonder how many moderators may adjust their protest time frame as a result of this comment…

  • Maeqa
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    161 year ago

    Makes me wonder what reddit’s usage stats will be in late July or early August once things settle into whatever normal they’re going to be. I can’t imagine they can pull good mod tools out of their asses quickly enough to combat the spam that’ll undoubtedly crop up without automod, etc.

    I think the question is whether this move will ultimately annoy the regular casual lurkers enough. Will it make an impact on reddit’s stats and reputation or not?

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      A flood of spam posts hawking cryptocurrency and hot singles in your area might even look on the usage metrics for a while

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      They’ll probably just plug Automod into OpenAI’s content moderation API or something if too much spam piles up

      • Maeqa
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        91 year ago

        Oh dear gods, that is the most horrible idea I have heard in my life and yet I somehow fully expect that kind of bullshit.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          AI content moderation will be chump change if they get enough takers on this new API pricing. Plus they’re wanting to IPO at a time when every Fortune 500 is jumping on the AI bandwagon in quarterly reports, so I’d be surprised if they don’t already have teams researching this internally.

      • @ArtVandelay
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        41 year ago

        Would be hilarious if open AI decided to up their API cost 1000x for Reddit