echodot comments on Reddit tests ads in search results as traffic declines and growth concerns mount

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[–] puz@piefed.social 25 points 1 day ago (7 children)

only let logged in users use the site

traffic declines

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I don't use reddit anymore because but sometimes a relevant thread comes up in a web search. But since they force you to log in they lost even the last bit of my traffic.

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[–] pidgey@lemmy.world 1 point 1 day ago (3 children)

Agree “many obvious reasons”. That said I feel as though there may be some merit to the “we need a way to keep AI bots from just taking all our content and reselling it via AI”.

There are a million other reasons to stop using Reddit and I won’t be going back.

But for years they built up a ton of great user contributed content. Just like it’s unfair for art, music, other content to be absorbed / plagiarized and repackaged as AI… it is also unfair that web bots steal all the old/good Reddit content and don’t give credit + make money off content generated by old Reddit.

Note: reddit bad. Also AI plagiarism bad.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 14 hours ago

Reddit's problems started before the recent increase of capability in AI.

It started with all the AMA stuff, then the API BS convinced a lot of people to leave and that was before AI bots were really a thing. In the olden days when moderation was still being done the bots would have been eliminated, via various measures, but now no one cares, and it makes it look like the site is more active than it really is so the admins are not that bothered either.