As Reddit moves toward an IPO, employees describe dysfunction internally. A year of growing pains might hinder the company's next step.
  • EatALime@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    If Reddit leadership was oblivious, their heads were under a rock. Various GPT iterations have been training on different subreddits and posting to places like r/SubredditSimulator for years and have even been reported on in the media well before ChatGPT came out. Here is one report on it from 4 years ago:

    https://www.engadget.com/2019-06-05-subreddit-simulator-gpt-2-bots.html

    According to the article, r/SubredditSimulator is 7 years old. The cat is way out of the bag here.