Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search

kept by eddie jun 05

Peptide companies are spamming Reddit's biohackers subreddit to manipulate AI chatbots and search engines like ChatGPT and Google into recommending their products.

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