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Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. (www.reuters.com)
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[–] Landmammals@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The next move is to use AI to generate posts and comments

[–] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social 9 points 9 months ago

spez says that's how he got reddit off the ground in the first place: faking content/engagement (well, genuinely engaging with his account(s?), but essentially shouting into the void and hoping enough people heard and wanted to stick around.

with a RedditUserBot trained on reddit users, you might be able to fake another decade of growth.

[–] Fake4000@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

I honestly think that has been happening with all these publications websites.