AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO'
AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO'
A market for manipulating Reddit using AI have emerged.
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You don't get to blame AI for this. Reddit was already overrun by corporate and US gov trolls long before AI.
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19 0 ReplyOMG 😂, so good! Your comment I mean, not arsenic.
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The problem is the magnitude, but yeah, even before 2020 Google was becoming shit and being overrun by shitty blogspam trying to sell you stuff with articles clearly written by machines. The only difference is that it was easier to spot and harder to do. But they did it anyway
11 0 ReplyYou don't get to blame AI for this. Reddit was already overrun by corporate and
USgov trolls long before AI.Ftfy
3 0 ReplyReally just "trolls" in general, but
3 0 ReplyLarge chunks of reddit read like US state dep press releases.
2 0 ReplyYeah, my point was just that it'd be silly to think it was just us gov doing it and not others.
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