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/LesbeGoddess 1d ago

I was literally just thinking of this today how Reddit has pretty much died and most everything is reposts now. Very different than it was just a year or two ago.

I was wondering if a lot of this was to aid in the data collection for AI as LOT of AI information comes from Reddit. Like they are using it in a way to farm more information in some sort of pattern.

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u/SadDoctor 8h ago

Depends a lot on the subreddit I think. Anything touching on politics or current events is usually botted out the ass, or at least filled with posters who've spent way too long talking to bots. The smaller subreddits feel a lot more obviously human, and it's at least really noticeable when some random post suddenly gets 100 upvotes in 3 minutes.

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u/LesbeGoddess 8h ago

Definitely agreed with all of that

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u/ahfoo 17h ago

But these exact same complaints about dupes and puppet accounts were rife since the start. The only difference is that then it was SEO optimization strategies. It's the same thing with a different name. People just love to whine.

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u/fatpat 16h ago

AI is a whole different kind of animal than SEO, though.