Reddit CEO assures employees that API pricing protests haven’t hurt revenue (arstechnica.com)

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I wonder how many moderators may adjust their protest time frame as a result of this comment...

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[-] sadakos_left_nut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago

Makes me wonder what reddit’s usage stats will be in late July or early August once things settle into whatever normal they’re going to be. I can’t imagine they can pull good mod tools out of their asses quickly enough to combat the spam that’ll undoubtedly crop up without automod, etc.

I think the question is whether this move will ultimately annoy the regular casual lurkers enough. Will it make an impact on reddit’s stats and reputation or not?

[-] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

A flood of spam posts hawking cryptocurrency and hot singles in your area might even look on the usage metrics for a while

[-] jon@lemmy.tf 7 points 1 year ago

They'll probably just plug Automod into OpenAI's content moderation API or something if too much spam piles up

[-] sadakos_left_nut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

Oh dear gods, that is the most horrible idea I have heard in my life and yet I somehow fully expect that kind of bullshit.

[-] jon@lemmy.tf 5 points 1 year ago

AI content moderation will be chump change if they get enough takers on this new API pricing. Plus they're wanting to IPO at a time when every Fortune 500 is jumping on the AI bandwagon in quarterly reports, so I'd be surprised if they don't already have teams researching this internally.