arstechnica ,
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Reddit, sneaky AI spam bots compete to sell you stuff

Reddit says its "communities are naturally commercial."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/reddit-sneaky-ai-spam-bots-compete-to-sell-you-stuff/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

kitsuneofinari ,
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@arstechnica "Reddit says its "communities are naturally commercial."

Cough cough Bullshit! Cough cough!

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@arstechnica I’ve contributed to and learned from the community there extensively. Not recently, but it was never “naturally commercial.”

It was geeky hobbyists coming to talk abt their geeky hobby and the majority of posts were on point.

Did we argue about whether to spend $ w/ a small company that made some u fortunate political statements VERY loudly? Yep. And then agreed to disagree.

Did respected merchants in community show up and weigh in? Sure. But not coml.

daisyj ,
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@arstechnica "Communities are naturally commercial" is a sentence that's both extremely depressing, and extremely on point for this moment in time.

beeoproblem ,
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@arstechnica that quote...

I believe the proper response is "fuck u/spez"

jeena ,
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@arstechnica I think it's much worse on Facebook.

wraptile ,
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@arstechnica reddit is being astroturfed for years now. There are literally websites that buy reddit accounts 🤐

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