This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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.
The only remaining use for reddit for me is basically being a Stack Overflow for non-technology stuff (want to find the best bidet, there’s probably a review post on reddit that someone put together).
Now that comments might be well-hidden marketing attempts, there’s legit no trusting that information anymore.
Way to go, Reddit. In a few months, I’ll no longer have any reason to look at a post from 2024 or later.
Echo chambers were literally the biggest issue with that site. Now it chatGPTs itself?
most Internet users are happy to do a quick Google Search
Yeah, the average redditor won't throw abuse at you for suggesting they use google to find out what something is.
So... is it safe to assume reddit is suppressing it and handing out bans?
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.
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It sucks because I use reddit as a source to find out info about products . Now I won't.
So ultimately I might buy less?
Why are people still on there?!
Because up to now it's still a site where you can go talk to actual people. This value was preserved not intentionally it seems.
Lets see how that holds up if half the people are AI bots now.
Just like Twitter where most people are entirely ignorant to what's happening and they continue to use it because everyone else is. It'd be nice if they died like Digg back when that site went to shit just like reddit and Twitter have.
We all knew this day was coming. And, I suspect, knowing this is precisely why most of us are here.
I'm still waiting for the day when actual ads across the internet drown in AI-generated advertisements pointing to no real product or service. Perhaps that'll make attention industry collapse?
If you're looking for a side project idea, here's one.
brands can tap into the rich, high-intent product conversations
What the hell is a high-intent product conversation?
You couldn't make this stuff up
