AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)
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There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.
Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.
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this user seems to be a mix of a chatgpt bot and a real person. Notice how soo many of their posts are these long overly formal\affectionate replies with a link to specific products. The products are amazon links (probably referal links) and all the amazon links are hidden behind a redirect by using tastechocolate.co.uk with a...
So, I deleted everything I'd posted to Reddit almost a year ago now and have been over here in federated space since....
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“I didn’t notice a single new or low-post-count forum”...
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No API required. Kinda slow, but just leave it running overnight if you have a lot. Make sure you run it from old.reddit.com/u/me/overview
Sure, spez, tell us again how reddit's just never managed to make a profit ...
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