“Q3 was a strong quarter,” Huffman said on Thursday’s earnings call, in which he lauded Reddit as being “for humans by humans” and seemed to take a subtle dig at AI slop (the low-quality AI content clogging corners of the internet): “Reddit is in a unique position; we’re not trying to be the next anything. We’re focused on being the best version of ourselves and what the internet needs most: a place where people can connect on almost any topic and find genuinely useful information.”

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    7 months ago

    not to mention whose recent valuations have basically been about selling their data to train models which will be used to make AI slop

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      Yep. Shutting down the API was 100% because they were angry they got scraped and didn’t get money.