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AI Is Poisoning Reddit To Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO'
An anonymous reader shares a report: For years, people who have found Google search frustrating have been adding "Reddit" to the end of their search queries. This practice is so common that Google even acknowledged the phenomenon in a post announcing that it will be scraping Reddit posts to train it...
And so, naturally, there are now services that will poison Reddit threads with AI-generated posts designed to promote products. Moments later, the dashboard shows how Reply Guy is "already in the responses" of the comments section of different Reddit posts. The creator of the company, Alexander Belogubov, has also posted screenshots of other bot-controlled accounts responding all over Reddit.
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