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I feel like this is what we are trying to do at Reddit, but needless to say it's going to get harder and harder.

I sense Reddit is a lost cause. Even before the latest wave of generative AI you could tell things were heavily manipulated.

I dare say that I haven’t noticed that much of a change in things and that could either be because LLMs are just that good at Reddit content, or that because Reddit was already so botted and manipulated it didn’t really change much.

Reddit started to decline dramatically once they started to charge for API access last year. Mods on a politics subreddit I was talking to said all the free tools they used to keep on top of things stopped working, so they could no longer filter out the trolls and bots.

I sure hope the money that Reddit made makes up for the readers who are fleeing.

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