[gardnr]

Reddit can automate the content generation with ml. They have the perfect dataset to continue generating successful posts and comments into the future. They have seeded conversations in the past. Spez is confident he no longer requires a core community of humans; humans that have feelings and stage protests.

[Macha]

The ad industry calls this kind of auto-generated content for ad placement "MFA" or "Made for Advertising". And they hate it. Ad platforms spend time categorising this content so they can either exclude it from all their users or just exclude it from those users who don't specifically opt into it.

Like many other metrics in the industry (viewability, brand safety, etc.) it's actually the largest brands who are the biggest spenders and the ones you'd think from outside would be the most ruthless about "money in, results out", that care about this stuff the most. The ones that don't are the no-name dropshippers or those "You won't believe this story about X" content mills, but those ones also are willing to pay the least for their ads.

[raxxorraxor]

I would love for advertisers paying a lot of money for bots pushing some bytes around. Budgetary capture as a spam filter technique.

[llampx]

Investors don't take kindly to being duped. Elizabeth Holmes can tell you more.

[malermeister]

Wonder if that'll work as well as autopilot...

[bfuller]

sounds out there, but I completely agree.