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Websites are seo-ing Reddit now (shit things like: Top ten airfryer recommended by Reddit), so appending reddit is not enough anymore. In a very close future we are going to have to type the whole site:reddit.com.

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Well, I already do that today. Probably won't help too much, though, cause AI will generate some legit looking posts/comments and you will have a hard time figuring out if they are written by a bot or person.

Exactly. I keep coming back to the fact that, between all the different ways AI can generate content, the entire user-contributed-internet is about to be completely flooded with amicable and true-sounding nonsense with a peppering of whatever viewpoint the bot-runner wants to push.

I honestly don't see any way out besides Digital ID -- if a person has to provide the host with information about who they really are, then once they're discovered the host can actually prevent further abuse. Otherwise, a single person can create infinite bots to shill whatever product or viewpoint they want.

Which is why I have conspiracy theories about the conspiracy theories about digital ID. The same actors who use the internet to push misinformation benefit from anonymity.

It's almost like the Matrix but in cyberspace where humans are constantly trying to escape the bots, except instead of mining the humans for energy, the bots are mining data.

> the entire user-contributed-internet is about to be completely flooded with amicable and true-sounding nonsense with a peppering of whatever viewpoint the bot-runner wants to push.

Feels like that's already happened before ChatGPT.

There's always

    buyitforlife air fryer site:reddit.com before:2020-01-01

in the event that the botspampocalypse worsens.

As a buyitforlife moderator I appreciate that. My current plan is hoping that the LLM-using astroturfers don't target us, because I have very few tools to deal with that kind of thing currently.

> before:2020-01-01

However, all available versions of that product had their quality gutted in 202X.

So this can be taken cared of with the good old blocklist of search results

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