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by KeplerBoy 1135 days ago
You might be right. What a dystopian future that will be. Make a few requests too many and the webserver might think you're scraping data so it gaslights you into reading bullshit.
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Is this sarcasm? I can’t tell.
It's not. The internet will be crazy once compute will be cheap enough to slightly modify all displayed content slightly to suit your personal user profile.
So you think Reddit is going to replace their actual content… with very believable generated text? And that’s going to fool people at scale? How does that help Reddit (or other org) combat bots? You can just put garbage text that seems real but has nothing to do with todays news (or politics or science).

I’m really struggling to understand how you think this is going to work and result in harm.

This assumes both the site and the reader are really dumb.