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AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

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