Anthony Baker<p>Fucking hell. To get their products and services into AI chatbot responses, companies are auto-generating slop and posting to the known SOURCES of chatbot data — Reddit, etc. — to try and game the system. </p><p>Need to come up with a better term for how people are trying to "game" this new age of LLM/chat/voice-based interfaces, where the traditional web is acting less as a direct interface and more as a secondary data store. </p><p><a href="https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/26/reddit-is-being-spammed-by-ai-bots-and-its-all-reddits-fault/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5mac.com/2025/06/26/reddit-</span><span class="invisible">is-being-spammed-by-ai-bots-and-its-all-reddits-fault/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aislop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aislop</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eshittification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a></p>