Steve Huffman

And now with AI, you can take the human out of the loop entirely and create this content without people at all.

So we've sacrificed our humanity by saying things we don't believe and then sacrificed it again by adding AI into the mix.

Merriam-Webster's word of the year in 2025 was slop.

And so we sacrificed our humanity multiple times.

Let me provide to you another perspective, another metaphor, which is the city.

Cities are an inseparable concept from humanity.

What is a city?

A city is a place where people live, they work, they play, they go shopping, they eat.

and cities naturally subdivide into neighborhoods.

And those neighborhoods have distinct cultures and vibes.

This is the model we use for Reddit.

On Reddit, you can support, you can share a few laughs, you can learn about things.

There's coffee shops, there's sports bars, there's a few weird basements.

But the communities on Reddit are like the neighborhoods.

They're naturally forming, and they have their distinct cultures and values and vibes.

And we think this model is a better model for the internet.

The only city I know where everybody wants to be famous is L.A.

In general, the stage creates celebrities, the city creates citizens.

The stage concentrates attention.

In the city, it's distributed.