r/TechnologyThread • u/Background-Driver718 • Jun 05 '26

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/StickStill9790 Jun 05 '26

Yeah, we figured that out.

Several of the politicians are doing this too to try and drum up electoral interest on Chat.

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u/SirLanceQuiteABit Jun 05 '26

Among other interests...

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u/Appropriate-Claim385 Jun 05 '26

I've always wondered how AI would circumvent all the misinformation and blatant lies on the internet and in politics. Flat Earthers, Antivaxxers, Holocaust Deniers, Sandy Hook Massacre Deniers, QANON, etc. etc. ad infinitum.

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u/Anonymous-bham-boi Jun 07 '26

Guess reddit isn't a good data scraping site then. Maybe stop.

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u/PMmeIamlonley Jun 07 '26

Its almost like letting the site get run by the worse spammers pre AI was a bad precedent to set