I seem to be one of the few who remembers a couple years back when Reddit did one of their April Fools interactive games and the whole point of the game was to guess whether a comment was human generated or bot generated.

They made it seem like a game by challenging you to get 5 in a row or something like that.

They, in effect, had tens of millions of users pass/fail training AI to write comments that were impossible to discern from human comments.

Given the number of communities they have shut down on that site, the amount of banning/muting that goes on, and the restrictions for mobile users that don’t have the Reddit app on their phones… one has to assume their user base has taken a dive.

I’m guessing at least 50% of the comments and accounts supporting the narrative on Reddit are bots that they have created themselves. It’s possible, so it is most likely the case. They have a direct financial incentive to do so.