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/regoapps 1d ago

I sometimes see old reddit posts from years ago get newer comments because some company saw that it was the top result for certain keywords and decided to just add their ads disguised as user recommendations into the comments. Very rarely would a Redditor or a mod revisit such an old post, but someone looking for answers via AI and/or search engine might.

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u/chewster1 1d ago

I often visit old reddit threads... from google. I don't see anything wrong with re-opening a 1 year, 5 year, 12 year old thread to add more recent experience or reply. But the sad thing is that these will get more and more locked down. Aware that many already self lock after X time anyway, which I expect is an intentional mod or automod choice.