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AI Bots Appeared After Reddit Partnered with OpenAI (documentingourdecline.substack.com)

submitted 8 months ago by DocumentingDecline@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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An investigation into the AI bots that appeared on Reddit after they partnered with OpenAI.

Key points:

The bots post a lot of links to products and services which appear to be adverts but are not marked as such.
Many of these links are for Sam Altman's World ID.
Reddit added terms on AI advertising to their business page around the time the bots appeared.
The bots also make up stories about dead mothers, depression, drug addiction, eating disorders, medical conditions and mental health issues.

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[–] Rothe@piefed.social 12 points 8 months ago

There was an article back in October 2025 which stated that at that point bot generated internet content had exceeded human generated content.

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