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

fivezero@lemmy.world · edit-2 1 year ago

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

theangryseal@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

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 · 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