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by suburban_strike 3 days ago
> For whatever reason, Reddit gave enormous amount of censorship and conversation-shaping power to mods

It's been "bad" since the 2010s, but censorship went into overdrive once OpenAI struck a deal with Reddit a few years ago (2021?). The mods do the dirty work of aggressively sanitizing all future training data for "safety" so the entire site is curated to align with ChatGPT now.