“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.”
rip aaron swartz
Fuck Spez
Not a single mention of Swartz in the article. Absolute scum
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)
That’s pretty funny coming from the CEO of a platform that was already overrun by low-effort bots even before AI slop became a thing…
not to mention whose recent valuations have basically been about selling their data to train models which will be used to make AI slop
Yep. Shutting down the API was 100% because they were angry they got scraped and didn’t get money.
And all he had to do was fuck over everyone who helped him get there. His co-founder and users most of all
Peak US
And his narcissism is rewarded with extreme wealth and power.
Peak capitalism.
Ah, yes. The Steve Jobs model. Find someone with true talent, attach yourself to them like a lamprey, and slyly fuck them over at every turn until you are at the top with all the money.
Redditors: “Billionaires shouldn’t exist!”
Also redditors: Helps make latest billionaire…
Spez was the mod of a pedo sub. He’s also a white supremacist piece of dogshit.
Fuck spez.
Fuck you, Spaz.
Fuck reddit, fuck censorship, and fuck advertising.
Also fuck all the dumbasses that disagree.
The wrong founder died, unfortunately.
Died due to criminal prosecution for something Meta was able to get away with Scott-free.
God damn America.
Wait was he the guy that hosted all of those academic articles and was prosecuted for it, the killed himself?
He hooked his laptop up to school servers and was copying all the data on them.
(1) Swartz didn’t share the files. Maybe he would have but when he earlier slurped the legal library it was to provide an indexing capability.
(2) He wasn’t a founder of Reddit (but was an early developer).
The excellent documentary on him is online for free (watch it before it gets taken down): https://youtu.be/9vz06QO3UkQ
I didn’t say he shared the files. I linked to the documentary in the comment you replied to, but on PeerTube.
For humans by humans
Could have fooled me
If you wanna rise in the West, you better be evil.
RIP Aaron Schwartz. 🙏
Im convinced he killed the other cofounder, never a suicide
The US government did that via a guy who wanted a promotion at the DOJ.
From a company that was constantly in the reds?
That’s because they sold and continue to sell ALL the user generated data on the platform.
That’s why people can no longer express their opinions there like calling Trump an orange turd or Elon a Nazi will get you immediately banned, because it’s bad for training data.
Essentially Reddit is now just a place for generating AI training data and all the people still using it are sad lost sheep selling themselves to AI masters.
