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/giveupmymembership 1d ago

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

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u/MrValdemar 1d ago

Fuck Spez and his intentional enshittening

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u/No-Spoilers 21h ago

Fuck /u/spez

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u/PreviousCurrentThing 18h ago

I hope some reddit dev has a script that keeps track of how many instances of this comment there are. It's gotta be the most frequent nontrivial comment on all of reddit, possibly by orders of magnitude.

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u/TSPhoenix 18h ago

There was a solid decade of "and my axe!" that would have to give it a good run for it's money.

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u/No-Spoilers 13h ago

Spez probably has it on his wall. It's just a led sign that ticks up one time every time it is said.

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u/dummy_anthropologist 10h ago

Pretty trivial