• SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    10 months ago

    It’s a bot, it’s probably generating images from articles as soon as they publish. Probably so reddit can pump engagement stats for the board.

    • Ech@lemmy.ca
      8·
      10 months ago

      Still stupid. If it can scrape the article, it can scrape the photos.

      • DreamMachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        It’s just an extension of rewriting, they want to host “original” content over reposts, but rarely care about accuracy.

      • America@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        10 months ago

        And then it posts a picture of a piece of plastic and engagement is lower.

        This is a high tech low tech solution