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Reddit embracing all out enshittification (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by tearsintherain@leminal.space to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed

#For sale: Ads that look like legit Reddit user posts

"We highly recommend only mentioning the brand name of your product since mentioning links in posts makes the post more likely to be reported as spam and hidden. We find that humans don't usually type out full URLs in natural conversation and plus, most Internet users are happy to do a quick Google Search," ReplyGuy's website reads.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've seen these same kinds of posts, obviously ads and less obviously by AI on Lemmy every once in a while which started maybe a month and a half or so ago? Makes me wonder if they were testing their shit over here.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would not be surprised at all if small scale testing occurred here. It actually (unfortunately) makes sense since the Lemmy API is free to use. They could just trickle out bot comments and gauge reaction.

[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Scary but true..