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 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.