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.
There’s something you’re missing about this, and that’s how low quality the human generated content is on that site. The default subs are utter dumpster fires, with the top few comments typically being pop culture references being yelled into the ether, followed by unhinged rants, nutty takes, and assorted nonsense, all with poor spelling, grammar, and often the entirely wrong word used.
Flooding the place with AI content would be an improvement.