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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.

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[-] capital@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Too much. Reminds me of that time not long ago where every lie was “gaslighting” all of a sudden.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago
[-] capital@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Why you little…

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Or how a favorable opinion is propaganda. Like, ok, we get it, you don't like that one thing. 🙄

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