Comment on No wonder Reddit has turned to shit

NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• sjmarf@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Modern LLMs can search Google to give better answers. Reddit threads often appear as top results.

  Let’s say you work in marketing at a chocolate company. This guy wrote a script to find Reddit posts that ChatGPT might read when someone asks it about chocolate. The script writes a reply praising your chocolate, specifically.

  When ChatGPT reads the thread, it might tell people about your chocolate.

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• Small_Quasar@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Shitification.

  It means shitification.

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• Clairvoidance@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  means bozos are making even reddit-search useless because they’re making the post get to the first page through writing SEO + ad for their own shit on it

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  • TWeaK@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not quite. They’re making posts on reddit that few if any humans will ever read, targeting rising threads and planting comments before AI reads them. Then when someone asks AI a related question, it regurgitates the planted comment rather than established facts.

    So it’s not SEO on humans searching reddit, more like SEO in the AI domain.

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• Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Basically they figured out a way to train AI to recognize Reddit threads going viral and/or predict which ones will, among those which ones will also rate highly in Google results and which will tend to be used as sources by the biggest LLMs and to post in those threads about your whatever you want to generate attention for. So overcomplicated way of automating advertising. Optimized posting to convince LLMs to talk about whatever you want to advertise.

  I’ve always said that SEO was always going to happen, Google is at fault for the search optimized and the best result for what the user is asking for not being the same result. We’re now going to start seeing either LLMs sell whatever this tactic gets used on or essentially a sort of adblock being built into LLM training and search APIs to keep it from working, to make LLMs less likely to fall for native advertising/astroturfing.

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