Reddit Reviews goes against the whole philosophy of the platform, say users

Many Redditors have expressed dismay at the launch of Reddit Reviews, a new AI-powered feature which aims to summarise posts about particular products.

Reddit is positioning the feature as a way to save time and effort when researching a potential purchase, but many Redditors say that replacing human interaction with AI summaries is antithetical to the whole philosophy of the platform – and is going to make the existing spam problem massively worse …

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