In other words, a site that sells itself as a home for "authentic human connection" is now giving humans the option to interact with an algorithm instead.
TBF dealing with your average redditor already feels like you're talking to a bot.
Perhaps the greatest value of a good Reddit thread is the informed disagreement on best purchases and practices
Noooo frick Socrates! I just want someone to tell me what to buy!
When I reached out to ask about this product, a spokesperson told me over email that in part, "Answers simply summarizes redditors' existing posts and conversations without presenting an opinion or perspective of its own" and directs users to relevant discussions.
B-word please. It just chooses what the right answer is, but it didn't come up with that itself so it's unbiased?
Without human answers, there is no Reddit Answers—and so, should the feature really take off and Redditors stop engaging with one another, the chatbot will be drained of biological intelligence
This is something a child should be able to understand. The more the AI succeeds in pushing humans out of the picture, the less material it has to work from. We'll end up with AIs summarizing each other in an endless loop.
I probably just don't know what I'm what I'm talking about. I doubted that blockchain would really change our lives and... oh yeah that mysteriously disappeared exactly when the AI fad started. 
The creativity of our young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs must have created something completely new, something never thought of before. Except by all those guys in the 1980s who told us that the AI revolution had come so we'd all better start learning LISP.
In the end, there's one thing that soulless AI will never be able understand: Dude bussy lmao.
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