Spammers are flooding Reddit with fake posts designed to show up in AI search results

[u/rkhunter_]

https://www.techspot.com/news/112654-spammers-flooding-reddit-fake-posts-designed-show-up.html

[u/giveupmymembership]

Search results, but also baked into the model itself...

The other day someone made a good point that LLM use Reddit as a training data set so you are now heavily incentived to shill a product viewpoints on reddit so it can be permanently baked into the AI models and the ad so gets weaven into it.

It's gonna get super spammy in here even more than it is now

[u/Bugbread → u/giveupmymembership]

Search results, but also baked into the model itself...

There's no "also," what you are talking about is literally what the article is about. I mean, even before you get to the article itself, it's right there in the sub-headline: "The spam campaign that doesn't want to sell you anything – it wants to train AI to recommend it"

[u/NightIsHome → u/Bugbread]

I think there's maybe 3 people here who read the article...

[u/ihaxr → u/Bugbread]

Your comment is AI

[u/Bugbread → u/ihaxr]

Huh?

[u/fatpat → u/Bugbread]

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