Reddit • 7 months ago

Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed

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Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed

arstechnica.com

Reddit • 7 months ago

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Reddit says its "communities are naturally commercial."

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@MrJameGumb
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13•7 months ago
So, it’s basically just an ad delivery system now? If everyone leaves I wonder if the bots will just keep showing ads to each other?
- Billiam
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  2•7 months ago
  I wonder how profitable it would be to create a social media platform that was nothing but bots creating contents for other bots to consume.
  
  New head canon: that’s actually how Skynet starts.

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