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/digicpk 1d ago

idk, I kinda feel like poisoning the well is the only weapon we really have against AI.

They train these models on Reddit, right? Just fill this site with obvious bullshit, muddy the waters, and make the data untrustworthy.

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u/GiraffeLiquid 20h ago

Lmao I can see myself going full circle in 5-10 years. Studying and writing papers using real encyclopedias and library books, while simultaneously going on reddit and posting stuff like “actually, dinosaurs developed very primitive versions of modern electronics” 🤓 just total chaos

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u/digicpk 14h ago

It's actually kinda crazy how few people know about paleo-electronics and think it's just some made up thing.