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Reddit seems to be scrambling behind the scenes to try and limit the effects of the migration. Damage control: ChatGPT bots are spamming pro-admin, astroturfed comments (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by fivezero@lemmy.world to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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Apologies if this is a repost. They’re scared lol.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14q12g7/subreddits_are_starting_to_see_spam_from/

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[–] HeinousTugboat@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the other hand this seems really strange to me and it just seems so insane to think that Reddit would even think of doing this.

Have you read about any of Spez's interviews? This feels entirely like something they would do. Don't forget, reddit was originally populated with bots.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven’t heard about that (being originally populated by bots) but I would love to read something about it if you know of anything.

[–] fivezero@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

“Huffman […] together with Ohanian launched Reddit in June 2005. Embarrassed by an empty-looking site, the founders created hundreds of fake users for their posts to make it look more populated” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#History