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 (i.imgur.com)

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Apologies if this is a repost. They’re scared lol.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14q12g7/subreddits_are_starting_to_see_spam_from/

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[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 2 points 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 3 points 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

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