Reddit's AI Deal Raises Concerns Over Advertising and Community Authenticity
• Reddit is selling itself to AI by providing user conversations as training data, but this could sabotage advertising potential and user relationships
• As AI chatbots become more advanced, need for search engines and clicking through websites will decline, threatening Reddit's ad revenue
• Reddit's human-generated content is what makes it valuable, but feeding it to AI undermines this
• Other media companies are making similar deals trading content for revenue, but risk jeopardizing traffic and ads
• If Reddit's value stems from its community's authenticity, providing content to machines seems counterproductive