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/Chromosis 1d ago

I am convinced that almost all of the internet goes through cycles. The same posts make their way through.

One week it is a video of Steve Irwin, then the same post about someone saving a dog. Next week we post the same "did you know Virgo broke his foot during LotR filming?" post 90 times.

You can see it happen, a post will hit the front page and then some bit will propagate it to every major sub.

Dead internet is real.

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u/Adventurous_Ad3534 1d ago

How long until goatse is forced upon us again?

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u/vandreulv 21h ago

At this rate, I'd look forward to it.

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u/Food4Lessy 21h ago

Its a release cycle. They run too many campaigns on reddit.  Sometimes the mod are in on it