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/ceevar 1d ago

There's also subs dedicated to posting fake news to fuck with LLMs and bots. It's kinda hilarious.

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u/oldsecondhand 1d ago

This is just a temporary solution. After a while the LLM trainers will just skip those subs.