Investors Flag AI Firms Seeding Reddit Accounts
Investors share posts about AI firms using seeded accounts to boost LLM citations and views.
Sheel Mohnot posted a link to a thread with the generated headline 'AI Company Seeds 100 Reddit Accounts To Rank Top 3 On Major LLMs' and a summary describing a growth lead at a $100M+ ARR AI company running about 100 accounts for 15 million views per month to secure top citations. Rowan Cheung replied with the generated headline 'AI Companies Seed Reddit Accounts To Game LLM Citations' and noted how hard it is for most people to spot fake Reddit threads compared to obvious AI images or video.
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Interesting conversation with a growth lead at a $100M+ ARR AI company. They run about a 100 seeded Reddit accounts driving 15M views/month, for them to be cited in top 3 of their category on Claude, GPT & Gemini. LLM citations are the new mass discovery channel.
Who's solving the Dead Internet problem? Most of the world already can't tell when video or images are AI-generated... a fake Reddit review thread is even harder. Slop is still somewhat obvious to the terminally online, but open Facebook for 5 minutes and see how non-obvious…
Interesting conversation with a growth lead at a $100M+ ARR AI company. They run about a 100 seeded Reddit accounts driving 15M views/month, for them to be cited in top 3 of their category on Claude, GPT & Gemini. LLM citations are the new mass discovery channel.