PSA: LLM bots are commenting on every post on this sub, mods are slow to act
Tl;dr: Bots are commenting on every post, please read replies with extreme skepticism
Just putting this out there for awareness because people aren't always catching this.
There has been at least one LLM bot commenting on every single post on this subreddit, and many other careers subreddits, for months.
The current username is u/my_peen_is_clean.
They are automatically generating comments using an LLM, with a prompt something like 'Respond to OP, pretending to be a person familiar with the issue, with brief sentences and missing capitalisation, and complaining about the state of the job market'.
If (and only if) their comment gets enough upvotes, they automatically edit the comment to advertise a CV tailoring service. This is an example: https://www.reddit.com/r/womenintech/comments/1t6fbm7/comment/okh2o1u/
The username changes occasionally. I assume that a new one springs up as soon as an old one is banned.
I'm not sure who moderates this subreddit but I have a feeling it's one person and they are quite slow to act, or they just aren't even bothering to try and stem the tide if a new bot springs up as soon as it's banned. But they could definitely be doing more to raise awareness and responding to reports.
To me, this starting to happen is a huge issue that Reddit needs to get a handle on, but it seems like they are being extremely slow with this. We should report these accounts as bots to Reddit too with the report function.