Never underestimate the power of negative energy, plenty of people flock to also dump on things they don't like, it's a great way to drive engagement (albeit shitty engagement)
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This isn't going to happen in the future.
Bots are already engaging with users and pushing narratives. The percentage of Reddit that is inorganic is probably higher than most people would expect.
They're already doing that, it's why reddit went down the drain, not suddenly but progressively over the last years.
It can only get worse, I'm so happy the protest made aware of alternatives so I can be here instead.
Content will be used to train bots, yes, but it probably won't be Reddit doing it, and they likely won't be offering bots as a service.
Instead, they'll sell access to the API to people training LLMs, and sell it again to people who want to use bots on the site. They can split API access into bulk read, and read/write packages so that people can't double-dip. Then they'll let people monetize subreddits, directly incentivising bot access and usage.
Have you never been to /r/SubSim2Interactive?
Although you have to wonder how much advertisers would actually pony up if most of the Reddit users weren't actual users at all. They want people to do the clicking, and if the users are all bots, they're likely not going to bother wasting their money at that point.
r/subredditsimulator takes over reddit.
I'm interested to see how AI training on reddit turns out. Especially the default subs are full of snarky jokes, even on serious topics the majority of comments are "funny" one liners. And those are the ones getting the most upvotes.
Compared to a system like StackOverflow where the upvoted answers are the most helpful and mostly well written and thoughtfully crafted.
I always wonder if Bing AI gets its often argumentative tone from the reddit comments in its training data lol
Reddit stole this idea from /r/subredditsimulator and /r/subredditsimulatorgpt2...
Lol why are you using the future tense here, where were you the last five years?
Maybe I guess
But that doesn't seem will be too popular with advertisers considering it can go the other way too