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Bots creating content. Bots moderating content to fit corporate agenda. Clueless users consuming streamlined content. That would be a perfect circle.

Just cut out the literal middle “man”, and have the bots click on the ads too.

Sure, if you also let the bots buy things and sell things, then it'll be perfectly reasonable for them to also click on ads.

At that point, however, we may find out that the global economy turned into a fully automated, circular optimization process, and took off, leaving humans behind to starve and die.

The paper clip maximizer in reality.

Funny that this is the only part companies don't want.

> Okay. How about AI as the new mod then?

Sure, when we solve AI alignment (and I mean x-risk / Eliezer-style AI alignment, not the outrage-minimizing political correctness that's being called "alignment" by OpenAI and the others).

And how will this AI (that doesn't exist but sure) interact with reddit?