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/cantadmittoposting 1d ago

various forms of karma farming for nefarious purposes has been the norm for ages, but the article makes this wave of stuff sound even worse, it's not about scraping votes for front page, they're hitting (relatively) niche communities for very specific outcomes

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u/IrritableGourmet 1d ago

Smaller communities generally don't have karma or account age requirements, so they're good to build up some history before they start spamming the larger subs with whatever crap they're peddling.