@fastcompany: Steve Huffman, cofounder and CEO of Reddit (also known as u/spez) knows artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the landscape of the Internet. Amid an abundance of AI slop and large language models scraping subreddits for data, Huffman is banking on the humanity that's integral to Reddit — and the users already calling out AI content on the platform. "LLMs would not exist as we know them without Reddit. Reddit is one of the single largest sources of training data for the LLMs. Reddit continues to be one of the primary sources of both training data, and we're also the most cited platform across all models," Huffman said during a panel at the 2026 Most Innovative Companies Summit. "We found ourselves in this position where the content on Reddit has effectively become like oil," Huffman reflected. "It's this foundational resource for the modern internet. And the reason for this is because there's no artificial intelligence without actual intelligence." #fastcompany #reddit #stevehuffman

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