How Reddit (Accidentally) Became a Goldmine

[@slidebean]

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[@SplatusEve]

Reddit is my only "social" media platform, for niche applications, games, and hobbies, its been the only source of credible, verifiable information. The more niche, the better the content becomes. I am 100% sure that it will be enshittified, probably soon but until then, its the best there is.

[@slidebean]

Living proof of 'community verified'

[@CyY-vo3nb]

it was long ago enshittified all thats left is a ruin

[@cesarordaz139]

“Credible verifiable information” you have to be joking😂

[@hendrx]

and by verifyiable you mean whatever the mods happen to agree with

[@nosajgames]

Yup, in the same boat

[@shamuclone]

it's terrifying that it's the only way i can get actual information or answers on any questions i have. once the bots get to all the small subreddits and such, it's over

[@lancervp]

This cannot be true at all. Reddit is a closed off, left wing censored echo chamber.

[@אוריפרץ-ח9ב]

wow the part about searching google and adding "reddit" in the end of the search query is so me I am doing it for years now

[@slidebean]

Only way to do search these days

[@coldlyanalytical1351]

I have just unsubbed from Reddit - losing 3 years of activity and 1000s of karma. The biased moderators and the endless crap from teens living their parents' basements finally did my head in. There are some good posters there - but they get down-voted to oblivion because the truth and real experience clash with the kiddies 'beliefs' & wishes rather than being down-voted for being wrong. TBH it's quite nice having my life back!

[@Nobody-eg4bi]

I always noted that as soon as try to tell the truth on Reddit, then you will get so much downvotes

[@JokeJunction_haha]

I enjoy reddit. But I get why some people wouldn't like it. I just try to avoid the toxic people. Which is easier on reddit then twitter.

[@AirQuotes]

Disagree. Join better subs

[@Omer-vs4fm]

​​@@AirQuotesentirely missing the point false and biased information still plagues the site and is being used to power technologies that have fallen into the hands of the layman moving to a different sub is turning your back to a cancerous growth

[@fmj2088]

@@AirQuotes Spoken like a true Redditor

[@destinyglitches9519]

OP really went off on this one

[@slidebean]

lol

[@JShaker]

Saying reddit is the only place where we have human to human conversations is not a great way to start the video when the platform has been historically ridiculed for the amount of bots and fake accounts that contribute to the comments

[@Code7Unltd]

If Reddit feeds information to bots now, what happens if gobbledygook is fed to the community and the website laps it up?

[@LordBadenRulez]

We are screwed if Reddit is the bastion of knowledge.

[@chongjunxiang3002]

We really need more non-toxic glue on pizza and eating rock on reddit.

[@Dr-Franzi-Höhne]

What we’ve learned: be nice on Reddit to make sure that AI will like & help us humans! 😅 Thank you for sharing! Didn’t know this connection between Reddit and LLMs 🧐 As someone who’s just started my own KZbin journey, I’m passionate about giving startups & founders better access to the legal tools they need to thrive. Seeing stories like this reminds me how powerful the right support and a strong community can be 😊 Let‘s work on a great future!

[@Trizzer89]

2012 when the new guy became CEO, it all started falling apart. But when Huffman is CEO again, he REALLY kills it

[@Sicarius888]

Great, an AI trained on toxic social media manipulated echo chambers.

[@DeltaTesla-ph9yh]

Yeah. When I have a difficult question, I go to reddit. They even helped me find old anime I saw as a toddler that I didn't know their name just out of vague, fragmented memories I had. Pretty cool.

[@jakubzbroda]

Eventually, reddit will also get corrupted by LLM-based bots. It might already be, but it's not very noticable yet.

[@x3xmikey333]

Dead internet theory, bro. A lot of it is already likely fake.

[@ernestojordanpena2827]

There is already tons of (re) posted content from karma farming bots on large subreddits

[@x3xmikey333]

@@ernestojordanpena2827 on every subreddit* on every social media site*

[@veganchaatparty]

Your videos are reddit to my Open AI....can't feel good without watching them!! Hats off to ur team efforts!

[@adekeyeoluwatobi5816]

Finally another slidebean video😮‍💨

[@ericcarabetta1161]

I got banned from Reddit because of a sh!tty power tripping mod, so now I have to just scroll the generic feed and it’s all stupid anime or Indian subreddits.

[@Raj_Pandya]

just make a new account using new gmail and a vpn ( 3 times perma ip banned guy (hated by a mod)) and wait till your ip changes enough times and your browser is brand new that reddit can no longer detect you even without a vpn.

[@keith_carmona]

This is a very insightful video with a great production value. Thank you! Great work!

[@Iconeer]

Least to say, your very human and original content has definitely been a huge advisor of AI...and myself!

[@kpeterrafael]

Too bad the Slidebean subreddit has just 5 members lol.

[@slidebean]

Sad

[@DragonStoneCreations]

Let me fix it

[@dopaminefield]

Never liked reddit. The interface seems full of noise and there seems to be some general circlejerking culture that has somehow spread to most communities there. I remember that old webpage phpbb forum communities were a lot better.

[@YoursTrulyGod]

There are many reddit clients, use them.

[@Entertainment-]

@@YoursTrulyGod Won’t fix the echo chamber moderations.

[@billaak417]

Many people are in for adult contents. NSFW

[@azburefamily]

Spot on. I am dumbfounded how so many consume Reddit’s style of noise.

[@soulest]

The upvote downvote system makes it prone to circlejerking

[@oppaedits9819]

I think the reddit is the only way i believe that no AI can replace the info that real people with real experiences give so yes no matter how advanced tech may become we humans still need communities and the story of genuine experiences

[@Takosaga]

Left reddit last year, I think i joined to many negative subreddits and was tired of reading all the comments. I moved to blue sky for my social media

[@tuckerbugeater]

needs more censorship

[@mezalos]

So Reddit isn't just a place to find a fix for my water dispenser cooling system?

[@reelenz]

Real human mods that are power hungry and censor you on a whim.

[@LedSeng]

i think its a bad trend that so many YTers now are trying to subtly transition to their sponsor bit, by pretending that its still tied and relevant to the story. 5:17 to 5:50 keeps the listeners attention as if there is a link to the story, only to then betray that trust by plugging the sponsor service of which has absolutely nothing to doo with reddit or chatgpt.

[@ehza]

yes, you explained LLM nicely!

[@mip2300]

love your content

[@slidebean]

Thanks for watching!

[@tomasbaron8465]

And after that what will they do, if maybe synthetic data isn’t as good? Maybe I don’t have the context of more data sources

[@EllieInTheRain]

There is evidence that feeding an LLM too much LLM-generated content makes them go a bit nuts it's called AI inbreeding

[@gordondecraft]

Finally a new video 🎉

[@coldlyanalytical1351]

I assume that the training data sold by reddit has had bot generated content removed.

[@AiSaac-q8k]

I always add reddit at the end of something im googling to get actual non-biased reviews

[@agoodmansaid]

I feel like Reddit is the closest thing the average person has to the dark web 😅

[@jeczsz]

what about quora

[@PerfectPrafull]

Quora is a kid, full of ads

[@mjmulenga3]

Quora is thoroughly messed up now 😢

[@stefan-bayer]

@@mjmulenga3I would say comment section on Reddit is much better and most often times creates valuable new pieces of information through all the discussions. On Quora I never noticed these.

[@winnershandbook1069]

@@mjmulenga3 pre 2019 was golden age for quora. now its dead.

[@finance-q8m]

Politically correct version of reddit

[@lexov7981]

“They forced themselves upon him”. Wow, that got dark, sounds like a.....subreddit.

[@ginebro1930]

Reddit unfiltered? what? lol

[@DiegoSanchez-ih5sd]

As a NeoVim user, I Got triggered by that dude at 10:12 using his arrows keys, instead of JK to scroll up and down on his python code.

[@von...]

9:08 I dont think I can say the name you have hidden in there or else my comment will be hidden, but bravo lmao

[@jimihendrixx11]

Theres still good content there for sure

[@redda2]

Google search is so crap now. Reddit has real information

[@googooboyy]

Not gonna lie, for real world news and reviews, there's really only one source that I rely on: reddit. Next is probably twitter, but twitter has about the same number of bots as to humans, so it takes a while before real news synthesize there -- but reddit, oh my, it's real alright.

[@AaronBlox-h2t]

I'mgong to try it. Betterlate than never..... haha

[@amoledzeppelin]

"Pre-smartphones?" In case you didn't know, smartphones existed since ca. 1994, however, as a marketing term, the word "smartphone" appeared in 1997, and as a mass-adopted term, in 2001-2002.

[@coldlyanalytical1351]

I worked on the first real Smartphone (Microsoft+HTC) in 2000.

the algorithm showing hte post is not natural

[@tuckerbugeater]

real hoomans lol

[@Trizzer89]

"unfiltered" You have to be joking, right??

[@bythealphabet]

yes, Redit

[@stefan-bayer]

If you had to guess will Reddit still be around in 5 years upvote if true? If not upvote the first comment below this post. It really is interesting that Reddit stuck around all these years. The question is what will come next when you can extract all this info out of a basic LLM chat. I think the human exchange platform element of Reddit will still have a lot of value.

[@Nobody-eg4bi]

Reddit now is the definition of toxic platform, I dropped completely!

[@AbdulKareemAbdulRahman]

lov reddit

[@jackofsometradesmasterofnone]

Reddit sucks. I left when they increased the prices of their API as an excuse to push everyone to their official app. I deleted my account and all my comments with a script (replaced them with the same sentence) and left. I occasionally go there as a lurker because it's inevitable, because it seems as every search on Google ends up there. But the 2013-2020 Reddit is no more. I hope it continues to decline with the introduction of AI and their own AI search tool.

[@SensibleCreeper]

TIL why GPT is always wrong

[@NationalTidende]

🎉

[@Jewdew18]

Douched* lol

[@FreshGuava161]

Real and heavily skewed by liberal political view. Reddit is an echo chamber

[@김모치-z1h]

if only i saw this like 6months ago lol..

[@stefan-bayer]

Because of their IPO or why?

[@john2knj]

2006 was "before startups were at thing"? Pretty sure startups have been a thing for much longer than that.

[@JerusalemArtichok3]

"..You need better ideas to get in [YC] these days" lool have you certain their cohorts since 2020?