Fake Reddit Posts Are Hijacking What AI Tells You

In late May, moderators of r/Biohackers , a Reddit community with roughly 830,000 members, restricted new standalone posts about peptides and hormone replacement therapy. The subject matter was not the issue, 404 Media reported June 3. Peptide and HRT companies had been flooding the community with coordinated promotional posts designed to be scraped by artificial intelligence systems and surfaced as answers in ChatGPT , Google ’s AI Overviews and other AI search tools.