I mean, maybe... but Subreddit Simulator was a thing years ago and honestly, since half of Reddit's comment chains are just ancient memes that have been beaten to death before the commenters were even born - mainstream sub commenters have been indistinguishable from bots long before the current ChatGPT etc. fad.
Subreddit Simulator was markov chains from what I understand.
Regardless, there's undoubtedly been a huge change in AI capability available to common users very recently.
Honestly if I wasn't Don Draper in the elevator with reddit I'd set up a semi-automated system where I'd have a LLM 'politely explain in three sentences why this pasted text is stupid liberal ideology and the author should feel bad for being an idiot'. Two seconds, zero thought, to write some higher than average quality reddit quip.
I sincerely hope they go through with it. Reddit needs to die.
I think it's the other way around. They see reddit is dying and that's why they're going through with it.
With the new language models there's no way for reddit to tell a spam comment from a real comment. Their whole anonymous comment model is broken.
Boost some numbers, IPO, and cash out before people realize it's over.
I mean, maybe... but Subreddit Simulator was a thing years ago and honestly, since half of Reddit's comment chains are just ancient memes that have been beaten to death before the commenters were even born - mainstream sub commenters have been indistinguishable from bots long before the current ChatGPT etc. fad.
Subreddit Simulator was markov chains from what I understand.
Regardless, there's undoubtedly been a huge change in AI capability available to common users very recently.
Honestly if I wasn't Don Draper in the elevator with reddit I'd set up a semi-automated system where I'd have a LLM 'politely explain in three sentences why this pasted text is stupid liberal ideology and the author should feel bad for being an idiot'. Two seconds, zero thought, to write some higher than average quality reddit quip.