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Even as recently as a month or two ago his site seemed, to me at least, to be one of the final bastions of the public internet without a significant portion of its content being AI generated. Now, it feels like at least half of the articles I click on are full of LLM-isms and otherwise obviously AI generated. In spite of this, the comments are full of enthusiastic agreement or ardent dissent. Out of dozens of comments, none bother to acknowledge the inauthenticity of the content.

Is it finally time to throw in the towel accept the inevitable? Is it enough that the topic of an article or blogpost is interesting, even if the text itself is a pile of tokens?

Trying to access reddit.com from an AWS device results in a 403 response, with a page displaying the following message:

whoa there, pardner! Your request has been blocked due to a network policy. Try logging in or creating an account https://www.reddit.com/login/ to get back to browsing. If you're running a script or application, please register or sign in with your developer credentials https://www.reddit.com/wiki/api/. Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again. if you're supplying an alternate User-Agent string, try changing back to default as that can sometimes result in a block. You can read Reddit's Terms of Service https://www.reddit.com/wiki/api/. if you think that we've incorrectly blocked you or you would like to discuss easier ways to get the data you want, please file a ticket https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. when contacting us, please include your ip address which is: <redacted> and reddit account

This occurs when using a browser with the default UA via remote desktop to an EC2, not just using cli tools like curl