It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
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"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
  • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    18 days ago

    LLMs seem to love reddit a lot. Often times I find they confidently state information with the sourcing being a single reddit comment on a years old post

  • Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    18 days ago

    We have sophisticated systems that detect and prevent inauthentic behavior, coordinated manipulation, and astroturfing, and we recently announced that any fishy automated accounts will be asked to verify their humanity.

    Uh huh sure. Like I didn’t just watch my favorite gaming subreddit get locked after 2 weeks of constant copy paste spam posts about IPTV that even the simplest automod line could have fixed. I reported every single one of the and yet the accounts could keep posting.

    They weren’t AI, but rather paid spammers from spam networks in India or Africa, so they can bypass biometric requirements.