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FinnKuhn on April 28, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-Genera...

I am moderating an art subreddit with about 2m users and the AI „art“ spam is getting really annoying to moderate. I don’t even understand what the purpose of these accounts is.

codeduck on April 28, 2025 | [–]

I'd guess it's karma farming so that they can be used to steer sentiment in subreddits that require positive post karma to comment / contribute.

arccy on April 28, 2025 | [–]

some people just like seeing their numbers go up

butlike on April 28, 2025 | [–]

dopamine is a hell of a drug

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