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AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)
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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

The first obvious wave of this stuff, to me, was the video conversion ripoff software and similar. They had people looking around for questions their software was possibly a solution for. Sometimes they would act like users, other times it was more neutral info, but still clear it was self promotion because of what was recommended.