AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' - eviltoast
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        7 months ago

        He’s got to get them from somewhere. They certainly aren’t coming from his little piggy brain.

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        7 months ago

        Reddit is past the point of no return. He might as well speed it up a little.

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        Like a built in brand dashboard where brands can monitor keywords for their brand and their competitors? And then deploy their sanctioned set of accounts to reply and make strategic product recommendations?

        Sounds like something that must already exist. But it would have been killed or hampered by API changes… so now Spez has a chance to bring it in-house.

        They will just call it brand image management. And claim that there are so many negative users online that this is the only way to fight misinformation about their brand.

        Or something. It’s all so tiring.

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        Probably.

        So, we complain to a regulatory body, they investigate, they tell a company to do better or, waaaay down the road, attempt to levy a fine. Which most companies happily pay, since the profits from he shady business practices tend to far outweigh the fines.

        Legal or illegal really only means something when dealing with an actual person. Can’t put a corporation in jail, sadly.