A New Theory About Reddit/spez

3 years ago by Willy to c/reddit

for anyone who has been on Reddit for a long time, you've noticed a downturn in the quality of almost everything. With the release of chatbots and the advances in ai, there is a strong likelihood of Reddit becoming just bots talking to bots. What if he has info that it is happening more than we suspected and figures the platform is doomed, and it's time to cash out because no one can stop it? he wouldn't be able to say so.

SoCalChris 21 points 3 years ago

Based on some of his recent interviews, he's just a narcissistic idiot driving it straight into the ground like Elmo is doing to Twitter. In fact, in one of his interviews he actually praises how Musk is running Twitter and states that he's trying to emulate that. Idiot.

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slacktoid 1 point 3 years ago

How dare you sully the name of Elmo. Elmo is kind and thoughtful. Also fuck elon.

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relative_iterator 13 points 3 years ago

I don't think he's doing a very good job of cashing out lol

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FartsWithAnAccent 6 points 3 years ago

Doing a good job doesn't really seem to be his thing...

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Willy 4 points 3 years ago

in what way? because in making it public he still has so much exposure?

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relative_iterator 4 points 3 years ago

Mostly joking but I'm thinking all this drama isn't going to help the IPO

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Willy 2 points 3 years ago

what else can he do?

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relative_iterator 7 points 3 years ago

Not kill 3rd party apps. Charge a reasonable price in a reasonable amount of time for the API.

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Woozy 5 points 3 years ago

Occam's razor says, "no".

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average650 4 points 3 years ago

It would likely be illegal if he withheld that info from investors or buyers.

I guess he could be trying to get a bunch of ad money? But what's his end game?

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ShadowAether 3 points 3 years ago

And CEOs are very well known for being honest to investors /s

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Vampiric_Luma 2 points 3 years ago

"Winning"

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UpperBroccoli 1 point 3 years ago

Not a real problem! Solution:

  • Flood Reddit with AI generated content so it looks alive
  • Allow bots to borrow money
  • Teach bots to parse ads
  • Allow bots to spend borrowed money on cheap plastic shit from China
  • ???
  • Profit!
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vita_man 1 point 3 years ago

What if u/spez is just a very advanced AI?

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