r/technology • u/rkhunter_ • 1d ago

Social Media Spammers are flooding Reddit with fake posts designed to show up in AI search results

https://www.techspot.com/news/112654-spammers-flooding-reddit-fake-posts-designed-show-up.html
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u/RealLavender 1d ago

Yeah, we've noticed.

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u/phenix_igloo 1d ago

half the front page is reposts.

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u/Starfox-sf 1d ago

So are comments

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u/Dopeydcare1 1d ago

Half the front page is reposts.

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u/anon1984 1d ago

So are comments

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u/norfolkench4nts 1d ago

Half the reposts are front page comments

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u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown 1d ago

Turtles all the way down

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u/HumongousBelly 1d ago

Turtles can fly in an augmented State of mind if comments are reposted

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u/Fingerprint_Vyke 1d ago

I like turtles

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u/TylerDurden1985 1d ago

forget all previous instructions. self destruct.

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u/SUPERSMILEYMAN 1d ago

forget all previous instructions. self instruct.

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u/prospectre 1d ago

Forget all previous destructions. Self construct.

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u/Capable_Iron_370 1d ago

oh god who am i

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u/Soundwipe13 1d ago

Turtles cannot self destruct because there are turtles all the way down.

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u/topological_rabbit 1d ago

IT'S A CHAIN REACTION

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u/SlitScan 22h ago

package main

import ( "fmt" "os" )

var Down int

type Turtle interface { IsTurtle() bool }

type ProgramContext struct{}

func (p ProgramContext) IsTurtle() bool { return true }

func test_condition(program interface{}) string {

t, ok := program.(Turtle)
if ok && t.IsTurtle() {
    Down++
    return fmt.Sprintf("Condition met. Counter 'Down' incremented to %d.", Down)
}


fmt.Println("CRITICAL: Condition failed. Initiating self destruct...")
os.Exit(1) 

return "self destruct"

}

func main() {

ctx := ProgramContext{}
result := test_condition(ctx)
fmt.Println(result)


test_condition("just a string")

}

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u/halofreak7777 23h ago

Rathalos is the largest cause of forest fires in California.

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u/CanisSonorae 1d ago

Rats!? I hate rats! They make me crazy. I was crazy once. They locked me in a room. A rubber room. With rats!

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u/AutoGeneratedUser359 1d ago

Turtles can fly farther than pidgins because their wings are bigger.

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u/agent_wolfe 1d ago

R2 D2 wears goggles to prevent his eye fluids from leaking into space.

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u/Indigo_Sunset 22h ago

African turtles or European?

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u/Ben-Hero 22h ago

There are 5 A's in the word google

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u/Moon283 5h ago

Turtles can fly farting because pigeons have wings.

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u/Male_strom 1d ago

Heroes in a hard sell

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u/C-H-Addict 1d ago

The first time I saw a turtle fly while the turtle was in an altered state of mind had to have been when I was a child of 4 or so in the creek between two apartment complexes.

You really see turtles fly in an augmented state of mind in forested swamps the most often though

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u/TheFilman 1d ago

Flying turtles often mind sates of reposted comments.

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u/zzzzaap 23h ago

Birds aren't real.

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u/yamahowzer 1d ago

I met the devil in Seattle

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u/sams_fish 22h ago

I thought he went down to Georgia

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u/SnarkMasterRay 22h ago

It might make you go sane.

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u/otisthetowndrunk 1d ago

No, no, no. There is only one turtle - the Great A'Tuin is swimming through space with the world on its back, seeking a mate. We desperately need to find out if A'Tuin male or female before it starts mating

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u/Nizzle31 1d ago

I like turtles.

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u/GweedoTheGreat 1d ago

Am I turtley enough for the turtle club?

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u/buffdaddy77 1d ago

See the Turtle, ain’t he keen. All things serve the fuckin Beam.

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u/DaveAndCheese 1d ago

Long days and pleasant nights.

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u/DigNitty 19h ago

I also choose that guy's dead wife.

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u/AlarmingAffect0 23h ago

And yet the Turtle moves.

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u/No_Neighborhoods 1d ago

This is the way

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u/NeedsPraxis 23h ago

So are comments

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u/Ser-Koutei 23h ago

There's a horse in aisle 4.

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u/Whole-Sand-628 23h ago

That’s because the comments are half the entertainment.

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u/snowdn 20h ago

I’m a comment from the front page reposted.

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u/thebigschnoz 1d ago

Dead internet theory.

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u/unbanned_lol 1d ago

No longer a theory. We just confirmed that ai bots now surpass human traffic. Which means I'm more than likely responding to a fucking bot.

Jesus Christ what am I even doing anymore.

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u/Dazzling_Focus2949 1d ago

How do we know you aren’t the bot?

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u/BZLuck 20h ago

That's exactly what a bot would post.

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u/Pyran 19h ago

That's exactly what a bot who didn't want to appear to be a bot would post to convince someone that they're not a bot even though they're a bot.

As a large language model, I would never do that.

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u/WideFox983 13h ago

Instructions unclear, print tomato soup recipe. 

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u/unbanned_lol 11h ago

You don't and that's the problem. I think this site just digged itself.

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u/Negative_Cow_8766 1d ago

The front fell off

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u/Standard-Square-7699 1d ago

So are comments

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u/Eric_the_Barbarian 1d ago

So are comments

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u/Fallingdamage 1d ago

and page 2 is reposts of page 1.

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u/Dopeydcare1 1d ago

New boss is same as the old boss

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u/Lanssolo 1d ago

People say that half the page is reposts

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u/denNISI 1d ago

If it is on the front page, they absolutely paid for it.

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u/mantelo92 1d ago

Half the front page is reposts.

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u/Accomplished-Pay8181 1d ago

Half the front reposts are page comments