"Reddit is now 80% bots": dev laments AI-driven collapse of information ecosystems
vboykis · x · 2026-11-03
Developer vboykis voices alarm over the collapse of the information ecosystem: Reddit, one of her most important information sources, is now 80% bots in replies, and she says X is heading the same way.
She calls out Sam Altman and Dario Amodei for discussing far-off paperclip-style risks while ignoring the ongoing information-crisis collapse happening right now.
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