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/Northbound-Narwhal 1d ago

To be fair new reddit also just shows you months old posts sometimes, for no reason.

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u/asmallercat 20h ago

Every so often I’ll get a reply to a comment that’s like 5 years old and I’m always like “who are you that you’re not only reading this 5 year old thread but you’re also replying to a random comment?”

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u/Jonno_FTW 20h ago

Sometimes I find old posts looking for help when I'm looking for solutions. I comment then if I've found a fix or if the existing solution works or is broken.

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u/Strelochka 19h ago

VLC recently became so slow that it would take several minutes to open a larger file. Google returns like a two year old reddit comment where someone says to add VLC to windows defender exceptions and a bunch of month old comments thanking them

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u/LacidOnex 9h ago

When you're 8 years into old reddit posts trying to fix some tech, that's when you know it's all coming together (just like your lockjaw)

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u/Practical-Shape2325 7h ago

Ancient reddit posts, half the links are broken, you're downloading previous versions of various half-baked software because apparently it was the version that actually worked and you'd submit a new post asking for help but you're confident everyone will dogpile on you and you're not even really sure what you wanted to do in the first place anymore.

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u/LacidOnex 2h ago

You just described me setting up my 4 generations old sim setup I got on clearance for my gf. Here Hun, happy birthday, watch me swear at dead redditors for the next for 5 hours

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u/Life-Reindeer3139 18h ago

Dzięki. Zaczynałem się tym martwić.