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I suspect they have signed an exclusivity deal with some kind of third party to use the API. It could be for "AI" or it could be for more nefarious purposes.
That's why it's important to go back thru our comment history and replace them with linguistic garbage. To ensure Reddit can't profit off our donations. I'm not in the business of subsidizing Reddit, after all.
"Plonked up behind the radio them ready the plastic manuscript who observe Jerry's can." Or whatever.
If I were implementing this nefarious Reddit I probably wouldn't have edits wipe out the original data. It's certainly not necessary to implement edits that way.
In fact, the editing log itself can be used as more data.
We actually know for a fact they don't do it that way, since Reddit has already been caught undoing peoples "delete" edits after they've gone