In case you didn’t know, you can’t train an AI on content generated by another AI because it causes distortion that reduces the quality of the output. It is also very difficult to filter out AI text from human text in a database. This phenomenon is known as AI collapse.
So if you were to start using AI to generate comments and posts on Reddit, their database would be less useful for training AI and therefore the company wouldn’t be able to sell it for that purpose.
Yes of course you could poison it. The thing is, Reddit leaders don’t care. They want to inflate the price as much as possible, get as much money from it, and then bail when the time is right.
Many downstream customers also don’t care. They’re riding the AI bubble to get richer, not because they actually care about high-quality products. Of course there is some cool legitimate AI work and research, as we have all seen, but the expensive decisions are being made based on expected short-run profit.