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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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[–] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Lemmy Flood Gates right now.

The control room has alarms going off and on the main screen it just says “LET ‘R RIP” in blinking red letters.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The sad thing is, I'd probably still be using it if I wasn't one of those hit with a "Site-Wide Ban because we love power tripping!"

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 6 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 6 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.

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[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Jesus Christ it's like how you know that skull fucking grandma would be awful, but actually seeing it happen is a whole different level of fucked up.

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