Fuck you spez. What was once suspected to be the cause of all those heavy-handed permabans is now revealed.
So Reddit is going to funnel money into soulless AI moderators that everyone will hate when they already had completely free human moderators? They're a bunch financial geniuses over there.
Free moderators tried protesting (it didn't achieve anything) so they try and make them even more replaceable.
I can already imagine people using prompts in their comments to mess up the LLM moderator
Oh please let it be so. ～(つˆ0ˆ)つ｡☆
I'll have to create a new Reddit account just to leave again!
So the moderation quality will fall off the cliff. GG well played
the moderation quality fell off a cliff ages ago
this is boring a hole to the center of the earth
Mod: Anyway guys... Fuck Reddit!
Mod banned....
AIMod: Sorry, no ableism is allowed per rule 235. You said fuck. This is your 3rd time. You're IP banned.
They always always always avoided paid moderators, to their detriment. Now they are giving AI a go to be worse than automod.
they want MOds to play ball, most wont. so thier answer is having AI mods, overriding mods i assume. its essentially turning into FB 2.0.
What are mods refusing to do that they want to make them do at this point? The protest years ago ended within a couple of days and nothing happened.
they wernt doing what SPEZ is asking most of the time.
I mean, a bunch of us are here. It might not have been earth-shattering, but it'd be quite self-defeating to say our little community is "nothing."
The Fediverse received quite a boost from Reddit's fuckery. We may not be "mainstream," but I imagine a lot of us prefer it this way.
I bet
Fuck u/spez
Is hardcoded into some sort of ghost ban
AI moderating AI.
Like seriously, I still engage in some niche subs from time to time, but literally everything feels like bots talking to bots.
Dead Internet Theory, baby.
TBH, the reply of "Dead internet theory" is starting to feel like a bot pattern matching on "bot talking to bot".
Like we get it.
I prefer the Bread Internet Theory
The bots will soon learn how to bake
Once all the smart creative types left because of their authoritarian practices, it just feels like a hollow shell of its former self. Due to all the bots of course, I expect the others still there to slowly leave as the quality degrades further
Where did the creative types go though?
They also gate old.reddit behind logins now. More reasons to never return.
You're behind the times, even logging in isn't sufficient now. You have to reset to old reddit in preferences now every time you log in.
More reasons to never return.
shreddit costs money now, but Power Delete Suite will still let you delete your post history on the way out.
https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
At present it only works in a Chromium-based browser.
Probably it's not really deleted but at least it stops your posts from adding value to the reddit's public-facing side.
I use LibRedirect when I have to go there. https://redlib.catsarch.com/ is my preferred frontend.
it still works on waterfox, and other forks. on mobile. i use sink it extensions, or yeoldreddit(and the old reddit switcher) the extension makes old reddit usable on mobile.
Using AI to moderate a platform with 90% bots, sure.
As long as it increases their value they don't care. Till it comes out it is all bots.
its going to be "Ai incest" AI on AI moderating each other, fighting.
It's always sad seeing AI on AI crime.
Hot take: Reddit will improve because the AI has to be better than the HOA-mentality losers that currently moderate Reddit.
Poster, moderator and consumer now
It’s already automated by trash AI.
Can’t be much worse than what they currently have. Automated trash = human trash.
It’s gonna be automated neoliberal LLM to ban and shadow ban anyone that doesn’t agree with the corporate status quo.
this has been happening for some time already. bans after saying a wrong word happen immediately within a few seconds
not evenposting, even "looking" at your browser wrong is enough. if the AI assumes your account is botting or something it will ban it.
many times when i started new accounts there they were immediately shadow banned without any notification
they seem to have laid off the pressure though as of late, they realized too late that thier bannings were reducing traffic to the site, thus AI-data mining content. although they did not decrease thier ability to detect methods of people using hundreds of accounts at once though, and seem to selectively choose which keywords to ban. also i notice switching between different browsers(forks) may trigger the same thing. my last account(that was 11years old was shadowbanned last year, i kept it alive because i was appealing for a couple months. recently deleted it, and made an acc a month ago, havnt seen a ban YET? corrobated by another user on lemmy, time will tell becaus ei accidentally did switch browsers. im guessing reddit scrutinized serial ban evaders, who also spams to drive people to thier own website or AI more heavily. reddit is intentional ignores propaganda bots though.
same IP/same device, i think they will still likely ban, but if changed up any of this, they wont notice right away(not all the case though). i only use the new acct for NICHE content i cant find here(none of the big SUB nonsense).
also time will tell when they fully deploy thier forced LOGINs(as not all browsers are affected by the popups,slowdowns),t hey are figuring how to get around the other browsers still able to force old reddit and the extensions.
I got hit by a word filter too. Each individual word was SFW but the combination could be interpreted as hateful (even though it wasn't in context). So they have some sort of intent-matching system that is poorly implemented, probably piping it through the cheapest haiku model they can access.
Days without hearing a single thing that has made me want to visit Reddit: however old this account is
Now instead of a faceless notification destroying your account with no explanation, it will be a faceless notification destroying your account with no explanation AND destroy a bit more of the ecosystem.
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