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It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests / A tiny snippet of user-generated text as short as 13 words long is often enough to manipulate the AI agents that power… (www.404media.co)
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[–] Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

We have sophisticated systems that detect and prevent inauthentic behavior, coordinated manipulation, and astroturfing, and we recently announced that any fishy automated accounts will be asked to verify their humanity.

Uh huh sure. Like I didn't just watch my favorite gaming subreddit get locked after 2 weeks of constant copy paste spam posts about IPTV that even the simplest automod line could have fixed. I reported every single one of the and yet the accounts could keep posting.

They weren't AI, but rather paid spammers from spam networks in India or Africa, so they can bypass biometric requirements.