Dev claims legit companies flood Reddit with bots to shape what ends up in ChatGPT
zeeg · x · 2026-11-05
Developer thdxr claims there are 'very legitimate companies' flooding Reddit with bots to shape what eventually ends up in ChatGPT — not just to recommend their products but to counter narratives they dislike. Sentry's zeeg quote-tweeted asking how much it'd cost to troll those people.
It's a revealing look at the dark side of GEO: brands gaming high-weight corpus sources like Reddit to influence LLM outputs.
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