Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed
arstechnica.com
Reddit says its "communities are naturally commercial."

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.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    45·
    7 months ago

    And now ensues an arms race, in which advertisers attempt to plant adverts into comment sections naturally, while reddit attempts to stop them doing it for free.

    No company with shareholders can ever avoid enshittification.

    • bcron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 months ago

      Next stop: advertisers pushing product placement into generative images, and generative images with product placement littering image searches. It’s a pandora’s box we can’t close

    • Aolley@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      You mean ‘native advertising’? that is something r/hailcorporate was pointing out for years, I wonder if it’s been banned yet

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      Even without becoming public. This was unavoidable and had to happen at some point due to how valuable reddits knowledge was/is.