This may be the most significant result of the API debacle. Without proper tools to stop bots, the site will quickly become a nearly unusable cesspool. This is the kind of thing that will actually affect users in the long run. When site usability degrades, people will have even more reasons to jump ship.
This may ultimately be the most impactful event so far in the Reddit API debacle. Without filtering bots, Reddit will quickly devolve into unusable garbage.
“Well, well, well. If it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.”
Dilution will kill Reddit. Wait until the AI scraping gets into a feedback loop with AI posting.
Yup! Bots talking: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2 Discussions about what the bots say: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2Meta Humans discussing with bots: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimGPT2Interactive
Musk gutted Twitter, firing people all around and it took the site a few months to break. It may take a while, but Reddit will crap itself.
