> And it slowly snowballed to the point where reddit is now the place to get genuine human text content on any topic.
That's what was interesting about the CEO's statement about their IPO, talking about how the future of Reddit is AI. Umm... I think what makes reddit great is you can actual get genuine humans discussing things they are passionate about. AI generated text seems like the opposite of this.
I wouldn't read too much into that, every tech company wanting to IPO in 2024 has to satisfy clueless investors with talk about their AI strategy. If this was 15 years ago they would be talking about investing to 'harness the efficiencies of the cloud' or something...
I don't know, if you take a look at the Reddit discussion here you'll find a lot of people who look down on Reddit users. The very same people probably Google "search term reddit" to get anything useful, but think of redditors as peasants. They don't appreciate them. The founders seem like they are part of this self-perceived "landed gentry" and may very well do something stupid with AI.
That's what was interesting about the CEO's statement about their IPO, talking about how the future of Reddit is AI. Umm... I think what makes reddit great is you can actual get genuine humans discussing things they are passionate about. AI generated text seems like the opposite of this.