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AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)
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[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You don't get to blame AI for this. Reddit was already overrun by corporate and ~~US~~ gov trolls long before AI.

Ftfy

[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

Really just "trolls" in general, but

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Large chunks of reddit read like US state dep press releases.

[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, my point was just that it'd be silly to think it was just us gov doing it and not others.