I think its more that the shills have been on reddit for so long that people are blind to the marketing techniques they are being exposed to. You can probably g

I think its more that the shills have been on reddit for so long that people are blind to the marketing techniques they are being exposed to. You can probably get an LLM to spit out some boilerplate that passes the snuff for a reddit comment already. True for HN as well, I have seen a user mention they used a language model to reformulate their comment before posting as some security measure. In either case LLM are really a steam shovel technological moment for the shill marketing world. What used to take active posting and constant maintenance of your bank of canned responses can now be done with one operator running a script that simulates all these active posters with enough variance to not have the responses seem to be from the same bank of material. You could dominate an entire subreddit, have 1000 of your accounts to 1 user putting out enough AI derived signal that even the few real users who post start regurgitating it.