Marketers and their bots have been using reddit to hype up brands. No wonder Reddit feels like shit these days.
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The linkedin writing format must be banned, exhausting, unreadable and way too self important. It’s not a haiku write like a normal person you lunatic. Also these bots are destroying public forums, don’t expect any praise from me.
Anyone that works in marketing needs to be flogged in the streets for their crimes.
I get the feeling you and Bill Hicks would have gotten along: https://youtu.be/9h9wStdPkQY
Nahhhh. When ads are clever or funny its fine. This lower effort bullshit need to die
What a self report. This guy is complicit in turning the age of information into the age of propaganda.
US is full of companies that publicly claim to manipulate reddit threads as PR protection. They all do it exactly like you’d expect - people with dozens of phones going through threads writing shit. Even if users are banned and their phone fingerprinted they just dump the phones for new ones.
Reddit knows could actually sue them and very likely to win but that would be a lot of attention at them.
The best part of this is - if commercial PR companies can afford to run this then what China, Russia and such are doing must have absolutely bonkers. There’s very little internet actually left organic.
Reddit feels like Quora at this point with all the affiliate links and promotions
More than a decade and a half later and pretentious SEO fanatics still fucking make my eyes roll.
Never forget that the morally correct thing to do if you happen to meet one of these people it to punch them in the mouth.
Reddit has been agressively banning data dumps of the Epstein files.
This doesn’t explain why Reddit has decided that I need multiple Hindi sub referrals every day.
Years and years of data regarding me, zero Hindi, zero Indian, zero interest, AND YET here’s another suggested Hindi sub! Fantastic work.
But the Jesus ads sealed the deal, adios Redditto
apologies for my off topic ramble, but I feel better.
This is so funny because I’m Indian and I’ve never come across a Hindi sub on Reddit.
God, I just hate the way these people fucking talk. Everything is a bulleted list and sentence fragments.
100% written by an LLM. They always use this tone and it’s infuriating.
People who abuse GenAI no longer can tell when the shit they post look like GenAI. They only talk to AI so it looks normal to them.
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That’s one of the signs of LLM output, take any idea and have it flesh it out into short article. It’ll bullet point the crap out of it
LLMs learned it by watching these idiots.
Yeah, but even when it’s not an LLM, they type like this now
Monkey see, monkey do…
Like the world’s worst haiku.
That entire fucking add was just lazily written by an AI.
“Developer” can’t be bothered to add "don’t to use emoji or bullet points in prompts and dont add a summary and def don’t add a second summary at the end?
🤮
The turbo-hell part is that the spam comments aren’t even being written for humans to see. The intention is that ChatGPT picks up the spam and incorporates it into its training.
I worked at a company that sold to doctors and the marketing team was spending most of their effort on this kind of thing. They said that nowadays when doctors want to know “what should I buy to solve X?” or “which is better A or B?” they ask ChatGPT and take its answer as factual. They said that they were very successful in generating blog articles for OpenAI to train on so that our product would be the preferred answer.
My god. Somehow I hadn’t thought of doctors using LLMs to make decisions like that. But of course at least some do.
You never want to know how the sausage is made.
Oof. Haven’t met a lot of doctors huh? Check out some of their subreddits
Considering that LLM content that makes it into training content makes the trained LLMs worse… is this adversarial?
people have been doing this the sweaty way for a decade
You mean more shit? Because it was already shit.
I have no idea what any of that means, and I’m happy with that.
ELI5:
ChatGPT can search Google to give better answers. Reddit threads often appear as top search results.
Let’s say you work in marketing at a chocolate company. You can use this guy’s script to find Reddit posts that ChatGPT might read when someone asks it about chocolate. The script replies to each post and praises your chocolate, specifically.
When ChatGPT reads the thread, it might tell people about your chocolate.
Basically they figured out a way to train AI to recognize Reddit threads going viral and/or predict which ones will, among those which ones will also rate highly in Google results and which will tend to be used as sources by the biggest LLMs and to post in those threads about your whatever you want to generate attention for. So overcomplicated way of automating advertising. Optimized posting to convince LLMs to talk about whatever you want to advertise.
I’ve always said that SEO was always going to happen, Google is at fault for the search optimized and the best result for what the user is asking for not being the same result. We’re now going to start seeing either LLMs sell whatever this tactic gets used on or essentially a sort of adblock being built into LLM training and search APIs to keep it from working, to make LLMs less likely to fall for native advertising/astroturfing.
means bozos are making even searching exclusively by reddit useless because they’re making the post get to the first page through writing SEO + ad for their own shit on itI am wrong on the internet
Not quite. They’re making posts on reddit that few if any humans will ever read, targeting rising threads and planting comments before AI reads them. Then when someone asks AI a related question, it regurgitates the planted comment rather than established facts.
So it’s not SEO on humans searching reddit, more like SEO in the AI domain.
Shitification.
It means shitification.
