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2026-05-20

I just want to remind you it is incredibly easy to influence large language models. People are using press releases, Reddit, and YouTube to rank number one on Google in hours...

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LLM source influence Reputation management

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I just want to remind you it is incredibly easy to influence large language models.

People are using press releases, Reddit, YouTube to rank number one on Google in hours. Large language models use web searches to get most of their information. They come across what is being planted by SEOs.

They regurgitate it as if it is fact. They don't actually know. They just say what comes up.

This is a specially useful for reputation management. Somebody's doing due diligence on a brand. The LLM sees the description of a YouTube video or an optimized press release or an optimized Reddit poster comment.

It parrots that. This is happening non-stop.

When you are getting your answers with AI, make sure to check the results that it is citing. See where the answer is coming from.

And if you're a marketer, it's a crazy blue ocean. Take your brand name, the word review. Then put, is it legit, in the title of your YouTube post or even a press release?

LLMs eat this up during web searches. People do too.

Other platforms that are getting cited really well: TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook, LinkedIn. If you have a strong website with lots of SEO authority, you can put up content especially if it's about your brand name. This will get ranked quickly too.

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LLMs can repeat information from web sources they retrieve, including press releases, Reddit, YouTube, and social posts.

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LLM source influence Reputation management

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LLMs can repeat information from web sources they retrieve, including press releases, Reddit, YouTube, and social posts.

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I just want to remind you it is incredibly easy to influence large language models. People are using press releases, Reddit, YouTube to rank number one on Google in hours. Large language models use web searches to get most of their information. They come across what is being planted by SEOs. They regurgitate it as if it is fact...