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Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Concern & critique reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· 404 Media
“"We’re also seeing this alongside incredibly risky sourcing, teens posting about wanting to grow an extra few inches. And then we’re seeing AI manipulation from vendors trying to promote these peptides.” www.404media.co/companies-ar...” evidence ↗
11 experts
4 communities
1 sources clustered
404 Media
Joanna Bryson
Joseph Cox
Sarah T Roberts, PhD
Christopher Mims
Jason Koebler
Djamé 🟥
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix
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How the network is reacting
Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
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Concern & critique
1 expertRisks, limits and unintended consequences.
“"We’re also seeing this alongside incredibly risky sourcing, teens posting about wanting to grow an extra few inches. And then we’re seeing AI manipulation from vendors trying to promote these peptides.” www.404media.co/companies-ar...”
Policy & governance
1 expertRules, institutions and accountability.
“The biohackers subreddit banned all posts about peptides and HRT because peptide companies were spamming + manipulating the sub in order to manipulate Google AI and ChatGPT answers. Very insidious industry that is drastically changing the internet www.404me…”
3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Joanna Bryson: So we all knew how to “google bomb” back in the 00s (remember liar -> Tony Blair?) by linking one page from several others. Is there a gemini bomb? how do we do it? (Hard to believe it’s “unintenti…
Lilian Edwards: It's "LLM grooming" now I believe and takes state actor level resources
Joanna Bryson: Have you a Url about that, by chance?
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