Yeah, I think it was just conspiracy when first proposed, but it turned out to be prophetic. LLMs evolved to a level of being able to write content for social platforms a long time back. As in, pre-GPT3. Reddit was a perfect staging ground for that. The process just massively accelerated over the past 2 years.
yes. this sub is all GPT2 (!!) bots and it's blowing my mind. I'm pretty shocked (at myself) that I didn't see this coming https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/