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Spammers are flooding Reddit with fake posts designed to show up in AI search results (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 404found@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

Plot twist: AI is still regulated for specific points of views so it probably doesn't matter too much.

Have you ever gotten into a deep political discussion with AI to learn history and compare it to current events? Last few times I did that, my chat history went missing after I closed the app.

Let the bots and Reddit sabotage each other. AI will destroy Reddit and still survive.

[–] Bieren@lemmy.today 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck Reddit. Okay. And I’ve talked about this action with friends. We are to the point we are fucking over humans, to screw with AI. I get, I really do. But when people are on forums, wherever, asking for help, and people are like here are instructions that are intentionally wrong. All to fuck AI. Clearly, being dicks to people is the way to do it.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, too bad there are no other options to get accurate help, like reading the manuals, instructions and docs, right?

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

Sometimes the docs suck. Or just plain aren't available any more.

[–] finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Getting AI to recommend your site or product is the new SEO.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 27 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

[–] auzy1@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I have no idea why there hasn't been criminal investigations of reddit

There were basically childporn subs in the past, and a lot of incitement of criminal behavior.

They've gotten away with a lot

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Seriously. I wish every person and bot there a pleasant, go fuck themselves.

[–] joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 40 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Before they just did it for fake internet points called karma.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

To then sell those accounts to people trying to manipulate the real users on the site.

[–] joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Yeah, I'm sure that was going on a LOT, I never really had it in the forefront of my mind though, mostly because thinking of ways to make money seems to be an alien concept to my mind. I wonder how much mine was worth before I got banned... probably not much anyways it was mostly comment karma from answering questions. Oh well lol.

[–] BeUnique@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I checked my first one (that was banned later) once out of curiosity. 8ish years over 100k karma and it was like $20? You'd have to really grind to make any money like having a bot farm or something. Granted I never actually checked my account specifically, just similar accounts with similar age and karma.

This was years ago that I looked. I wouldn't be surprised if the number has gone down since then.

[–] joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Oh gosh well mine was like $5 then lol. Yeah it really doesn't seem worth it to me but then I live in a totally different economy I suppose.

[–] BeUnique@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah agreed. But if you're in a 3rd world country or some broke teenager that money goes farther. Bot farms buy "legit" accounts then influencers pay them for likes and interactions on social media platforms fooling The algorithm into thinking the content is popular then putting the bought content into real human's social media feeds. I have watched YT videos on how the stuff operates in the past. It just goes to prove that the internet is fake af. Going viral can be bought. Algorithms can be manipulated. It's all bullshit.

Lemmy seems pretty legit so far though! I'm pretty new here but it seems like a small corner of the internet that's not yet taken over by 90% bots!

......yet.....

[–] joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yes I enjoy it here so far, there's a few hotheads but I guess that can't be avoided anywhere. People seem genuinely interesting and interested in cool stuff, so it's really my jam. All that stuff is just so beyond my, interest I guess. I love doing things with computers, making art, editing photos, games, I can make some simple web pages and put them on a host, etc. Fun stuff. Now it's all.... I dunno lol. I never got into phone apps to begin with so I think I was lost from the start. I like computing on a full computer. Honestly any algorithm besides chronological sort is junk to me, like you said it can all be gamed so it's just all so dumb.

[–] BeUnique@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Oh yeah I totally get it! The only reason I'm in the "know" is because I work in IT. I used to love computers growing up but uh... Now that I do it for a career, I don't have much interest in computers as a hobby. I used to lie at work in entry level positions saying stupid shit like "computers are my life!" Because I thought that's what I needed to do to "fit in". But, these days I'm just honest. When I get off work I don't fire up my gaming pc (don't even have one), I fire up my grill!

Glad you like it here! I'm pretty new myself. My only issue is there's not much traffic sometimes but what makes it so "real" is how empty it feels sometimes. You know people read your comments instead of getting buried in thousands of bot comments.

[–] joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

Haha, well you made it farther than I did, I too liked computers growing up but even though I went and got my A+, Network+, MCSA and all that years and years ago, and then went back to school and got an associates in web development, and then didn't do anything with that either. OOF. Well good news is now I know why I wasn't allowing myself to succeed back then, bad news is it's way too late now for any of that with AI poising to take over everything. I'm kind of glad I didn't now, kind of, if it wasn't for the fact I'd actually be financially stable now if I did lol. But life is a journey. I'm actually a bit of a luddite now despite my very early adoption of computers, internet, etc haha. Funny how that works out. Grill sounds great, I love cooking out doors as well, it's just invigorating :)

AH yeah, I had an older account but I deleted it because I couldn't resist the urge to make negative comments about the state of things all the time and I'm trying to be more positive so I made a new one. Yeah it's a bit slow at times but that is kind of refreshing not have to keep up with an endless barrage of stuff ya know.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It probably wouldn't get that much either, most of those karma farmers are in low income countries with lots of english speakers, eastern europe, india, places like that.

[–] joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I suppose, I just heard about the vastness of the old WoW gold farming economy semi recently, the amount of money going through that kind of stuff is just mind boggling.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I read about some online game that had gold, and these hackers learned to fabricate it after compromising the system, and were selling it to players, is that what you are referring to? That was a long time ago, not sure exactly, over 10 years though.

[–] joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 13 hours ago

Huh, interesting. I tried to find the article about the hackers, could not get it on enshittified search, pretty sure it was in Harper's Magazine. I think the hackers were in se asia or something but forget.

[–] 6_Electrons@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

I just thought about this... They made it so hard for me to make an anonymous account I moved here. The AI accounts have more tools at their disposal to get around this and have more incentive to so they stick around. They're little going to fill their site with bots while getting rid of a good portion of their human uses because of their shit practices.

Further when you sell out to using you data to build AI models what do you expect to show up after?

[–] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 15 hours ago

Who could've seen that coming, shocking

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

biohackers is a shit sub, on a subject that silicon valley internet douche lords were already big on. Fuck those guys, anyone on that community is already a fucking tool.

It would be like complaining about manipulative posts on a singularity sub.

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's really strange that the mods in the article are talking about the risks for their users by spammers while operating a subreddit that is totally encouraging people to inject them with really strange, untested stuff

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I remember they were big on this methylene blue stuff, that rfk was hyping, apparently people that take it if they get autopsied they have blue in their brains. But yeah, all sots of weird stuff.

Biohacking was already a word used by all of these fountain of youth chasers following snake oil salesman, that is what they are.

[–] joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 13 hours ago

I wasted so much money on different nootropics over the years, but it was stuff like piracetam, centroxophine, deprenyl, hydergine, stuff that's actually been tested on people before, and to be honest it would be hard to find a reputable lab nowadays unless you are a legitimate researcher.