I think Reddit might have already lost with digg. Ultimately it might be up to who controls the fake and bot content better. But Reddit let a lot of them already in. The question is it possible for them to do a bot purge at this point?

So it's pretty obvious that human only platform is more attractive to openai and other companies training their llms. Otherwise it's snake eating it's own tail. Little value. For advertisers it doesn't really matter, they just want absolute values to be high, no matter if relatively humans take only 60percent of user base.

Now I'm not sure how profitable is selling data compared to ads, but all in all I guess human only platform wins.

If Reddit wanted to switch to human only they would have to do a big purge. Not an easy task. Some bots are easier to detect some much harder. It might be easier for digg to have tight bot control from the beginning. Gathering right account action metrics from the very beginning for all accounts. Even if Reddit introduced them now, they won't work for past actions.

What do you think? I read somewhere recently that AI might be able to generate its own new ideas. Then it doesn't really matter.