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by cwkoss 1106 days ago
Reddit literally will not function without the gargantuan amount of mod labor they get for free.
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Maybe they don't need to. Maybe Reddit realized they can make "dead Internet theory" a reality, for profit.

Why not embrace the "subreddit simulator" meme and simply make users argue with GPT-X, trained on previous Reddit posts? No moderation required — every user is corralled into a tiny bubble, perhaps consisting of a single real person, all while consuming ads.

I wish that hypothetical was something that could be criminally prosecuted.