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AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I remember when I first started noticing bots bad was in 2016. They have been there for a while now. It's advertisers turn now though. It's at the end stages

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

"Most Reddit Addicted City" was Eglin Air Force Base in 2014. Eglin has a history of research about social media influence at their facility.

https://archive.is/1jhHe

That post has been pretty blackholed by the internet at this point. The bots probably started as early as 2010-2012.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Obama AMA was in 2012, That to me is the turning point for reddit, it's when it's population exploded overnight (which meant old users could no longer enforce cultural norms for the platform), it's when news media really started taking the platform seriously and I think when a lot of the political influence of reddit was realized.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Thanks Obama

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

South St. Paul also has an Air Force base in it. Which is also on that list

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Makes sense. I noticed it was bad because it was obviously election related and completely off topic for the subreddit. So it went past the high quality into the simple and bad