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Reddit kills awards and coins
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this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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If people start churning out upvote-worthy AI-generated content and posting it on Reddit, then Reddit will be happy with all the extra views coming from Google. They won't mind.
The upvotes are bots too though. A decent sized server farm could churn absolute garbage out and game the upvote algorithm and bingo, a front-page full of complete gibberish. Faking YouTube views is harder since YouTube knows how long you've actually watched the video and toss out any errant signals. Upvotes are too basic any bot farm can do it for cheap.
Hm, but it sounds to me like this will be a problem for Reddit's plans regardless of AI.