Your public Reddit post and comment history is being actively indexed by search engines and AI to build comprehensive user profiles. (reddit.com)

Comment. 'Yes, it was announced a while ago that Reddit had signed licensing agreements with major AI labs for this reason. It also why a lot of marketing advice these days is about posting your brand/product on Reddit to get cited by AI models. These reasons combined is why Reddit now is mostly bots.

So, there will be a lot of bot user profiles and real user profiles together.´

Lots of commenters on this started posting fake personal information about themselves, fake statements.