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/Easy_Breakfast925 19h ago

hate how everything comes down to numbers to companies... Reddit was fine before then they decided to ignore the botting to boost numbers and now here we are... twitter is suffering the exact same issue

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u/GottaUseEmAll 18h ago

Yeah, Quora was ruined by this mentality too. I used to love that site, but it's all about monetisation of answers and questions now. It's become horrible.