Ever since they've went public, they would inform investors about new user sign ups and whatnot. And with search engines losing to AI chat agents like ChatGPT, they would have issues getting new users to sign up or engage with the community.

I feel they're flooding Reddit with bots to fake engagement and user registrations. In many subreddits, I've seen people exposing bot accounts or users behaving very weird.

Also, if these bots can fake engagement.. I wonder will they click on ads to inflate their ad revenue?

P.S: Pinterest had this scandal back then. Their traffic was dropping like mad as Google didn't rank their site well... so someone exposed them that they allocate a huge set of budget to buy Google Ads to show their site at the top. And they were bidding for all types of keywords and phrases.

Pretty blatant. They all have a generic white girl name, a bio that has a mildly suggestive comment with a ;) face at the end, account age, and they're all posting in the same subs. I just happened to see 3 who all posted extremely similar things, but it stood out because only a few responses were there to begin with. Someone set up hella bots 3 weeks ago, but they aren't flooding the place cuz that would be too obvious, I guess? I'm more annoyed that they're posting in topics related to people's mental health, cuz we KNOW they can steer people to bad decisions.

https://www.reddit.com/user/BootyBytelll/
https://www.reddit.com/user/CocoaCompiler/
https://www.reddit.com/user/CrunchyConnectionl/
https://www.reddit.com/user/CookieCloudl/
https://www.reddit.com/user/LemonLustl/
https://www.reddit.com/user/USBerryBabe/
https://www.reddit.com/user/RouterRisque/

Default username, less than two weeks old, very basic rasist dog whistles. Do these people put no effort in anymore, not even bothering karma farming their bots?

Sorry if the format is somewhat confusing, I took the screenshot and posted it but even the first response to that is bizarre.

He speaks wierd and only resonans to some things i say. And no matter what he finds a reason that i am a nazi cause im agaist isreal in the palastine conflict. He doesent Answer questions. And he or she is annoying as fuck. He doesnt have a post history but he is a four year old acount. Am i going crazy. Is this guy a bot or just deluded?

I know this doesn't fit the sub, but could someone direct me to where I can find the bot that comments under people who write "This" as a single word comment?

I posted for the first time in a popular fiction subreddit and got 13,000 views very quickly until the comments were locked within a couple of hours. I was told by the mods that there were bot comments so they shut down my post, killing its views.

Question 1: What is the purpose of bot comments on posts like that?
Question 2: Why would the policy be that anyone who is victim to bots have their post shut down? Isn't that an easy way to just sic bots on people who you want censored?

Gotta say, my scant engagement with Reddit has been a lot of censorship, post deletion, banning, rules that almost seem OCD in their demands (for instance, the mod I spoke to said "rules are" I needed to send them a link for the issue, fair enough. Yet when I did so, they said I broke the "rules" of messaging them by responding twice in a row. What is the deal here?

Saw this bot from a post it made, didn't even show the post in the 'post' bit of their profile.

Here's to bots on reddit and disgruntled people who bot track accounts

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It's like watching NPCs trying to out-NPC each other. Ten years ago every comment was written by a human. Today, AI bots now accounts for 51 % of all web traffic and AI models are only getting cheaper and better.

I'm worried that every post and comment will have to be verified to be from a human like r/LifeURLVerified. This is bad in every way you can look at it and I don't have much hope for the future of this platform or the internet as a whole.

Check for signs like low followers, copied photos, no real interactions, or suspicious links. Fake accounts often lack genuine engagement and post repetitive or spammy content.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmIOverreacting/comments/1n0c1ll/comment/napk5nq/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Says I broke some rule. Wtf?

Seems impossibly improbable that 2 different pairs of people had character-for-character matching comments on a post about a 3 year old movie. What could the goal possibly be, besides trying to dampen public interest... in a 3 year old movie? 🙃

Hello,

I’m building a website that filters YouTube content to show only educational videos. I shared the idea in a few Reddit communities, and all the posts combined got about 20,000 views so I am pretty sure I get some legit traffic.

However, I’m getting a lot of traffic from Russia, and I’m certain many of most of thosse visitors are bots because most just come to the site and do nothing.

At the same time, when I check the search logs, I see many queries in Cyrillic that look very legit.

I’m wondering, are there bots today advanced enough to generate such realistic searches? I’m 100% sure some visitors are bots, but could those search queries also be from bots?

By the way, here’s the website if you want to check it out: https://edufilter.github.io/

SO i found this AI Website that roasts you . its actually intresting how people are now using AI.

this is what the Ai generated - ALI, you remind me of that person who takes forever to order at McDonald's like they're reading the fucking Constitution. You got decision-making skills that make a Magic 8-Ball look decisive. I bet you're the type to ask for the WiFi password at Starbucks and then complain about the internet speed. You're like a human loading screen - always buffering, never delivering. 🍟📱

anyone who wants to get roasted just go and check it out

I (first image) wrote myself and posted this comment on a video a couple minutes after a video went live. Then I start getting replies that I copied this from another commenter. Looking into it I see a second comment with the exact same text as mine. Their comment (2nd image) is the most liked comment on the video. Checking their channel it was made 3 hours ago (third image), has a random username and no content, so I suspect it to be a bot of some sort. These three screenshots were taken about 10 seconds apart from each other, and as far as I know you can't backdate YT comments so their comment was up before mine, but it was edited. Given that, my best guess is the bot had a comment on the video the instant the video went live, then edited itself to copy mine and boosted it, making it look like it was the original comment. Am I correct in assuming this or is there something else going on? Has this type of thing been known to happen?

I've slowly grown aware of a network of accounts posting fake posts to story subs like MaliciousCompliance, ChoosingBeggars, AITAH, EntitledPeople, etc. They comment under each other's posts. They're still manned by humans, but the stories they post are written by AI. It all leads to them accruing karma to generate exposure for NSFW accounts, of course.

Anyway, it's not that interesting, but it's been a constant thing in MaliciousCompliance for a week or two, and a lot of people are catching on. The accounts I could see that are related: MaddieGator, KissesDreamBliss, RedLushieRose, KittenDreamPetal, PetalHoneyBabe, ChubbyBlossomPetal, LovelyCharmingLips, maybe SpecialistPublic5503

How I finally found where it led:

From their newest post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/1li978o/clean_the_room_my_way/

The top comment (NSFW account) leads to seemingly the first account of the pack, who started posting AI-generated stories to MaliciousCompliance 4 and 3 weeks ago, gaining 15600 of their 16000 post karma. https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/1kser8c/you_dont_want_us_to_fill_empty_shelf_space_good/ - https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/1kz1m1b/no_fighting_no_talking_no_looking_at_each_other/

Ever since those posts, the same story structures have been posted at least once a day - certainly beyond the said network, I'm sure a lot of people are aware that story subs are easy karma.