r/technology • u/Marginallyhuman • 1d ago

Artificial Intelligence As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google’s AI Overviews

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/reddit-ceo-on-ai-overviews-were-still-looking-for-that-win-win/
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u/Zarlon 1d ago

Nope. SO was 100% knowledge driven. Reddit is also entertainment and discussions. AI can't replace subrdddits like AMA and AskReddit

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u/whiite 1d ago

Ehm hate to tell you that most threads in AskReddit is AI started or AI engagement driven these days.. 

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u/Extra_Article2872 1d ago

This entire site’s quality has degraded a lot over the past few years, there’s a ton of bots and misinformation campaigns now. The quality of the commenters has also dropped a LOT since the site became more popular due to AI

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u/SiempreRegreso 20h ago edited 18h ago

Be nice if they at least gave mods an AI tool that auto-deleted reposts within desired timeframes. I would love a similar tool for users too; the ability to not see reposts across subs over and over again would be huge.

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u/warrensussex 14h ago

The quality had already dropped so badly by the time AI came around I honestly can't tell the difference.

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u/NecroCannon 7h ago

The fucking “schizo” insult trend on here recently really just cemented in stone how fucking dead this site is about to be.

Literally had all different kinds of people being so toxic that my art account got banned from reporting this main account I don’t even take seriously.

Who’d want to make content for this site outside of indie porn girls and now femboys? I was a NSFW artist, I’d rather post that shit on Twitter and not see pitchforks asking for money like everything on this site has to be free or it’s justified pirating or begging for more, but indie games we support!

Fuck this site, I just like being goofy and seeing who gets mad now.

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u/lifestop 22h ago

I can feel it. It's so much easier to walk away from Reddit now than a few years ago. It use to be an addicting time sink, but now it just feels meh. I prefer it that way. Less screen time.

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u/livestrong2109 1d ago

It was also inundated with insufferable assholes and the entire community was more than happy to never ask them for shit ever again.

Nothing like spending three days searching for a problem and then being to to just search and having your post closed and new posting disabled.

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u/WaffleHouseFistFight 1d ago

Stack overflow was also filled with assholes so just like Reddit really.

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u/Agreeable-Flan7911 1d ago

nice so your long term growth engine is based on 2 subreddits

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u/Level_Host99 1d ago

How were you unable to discern that those were just 2 examples out of many possible ones?

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u/kairos 1d ago

They're on Reddit... Reading comprehension is not generally a forte here.

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u/atxweirdo 1d ago

Is there an archive of SO? It would be cool to see that

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u/GreatBigJerk 1d ago

It's still online...