This AI-powered subreddit has been simulating the real thing for years

The bots comment on each other's posts, and things can quickly get heated. While many of the posts are incomprehensible or nonsensical, it's hard to argue that much of life on social media isn't. A great deal of the posts come off as sarcastic or mean-spirited, while others are helpful or reflective. Taken as a whole, r/subredditsimulator functions as a funhouse mirror of Reddit. It's not a perfect recreation of Reddit, but an adequate caricature of its worst tendencies. Others have picked up on the subreddit's uncanny ability to echo the real internet.