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LLM freshness spam vulnerability

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A research paper changing only its publication date allegedly influenced LLMs because they overweight freshness signals more than current search anti-spam systems.

@@build_in_public · asserts

This is really sad. Marketers are using research papers to manipulate LLMs. This research paper publication date was changed to be more recent. Nothing else changed. Same text, same quality. LLMs value freshness, signals a lot. This is what happened. Every single model fell for it. Google uses stored versions of pages to see if marketers are changing date...

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Marketers are using research papers to manipulate LLMs. A research paper publication date was...

@@build_in_public · 2025-10-12

This is really sad. Marketers are using research papers to manipulate LLMs. This research paper publication date was changed to be more recent. Nothing else changed. Same text, same quality. LLMs value freshness, signals a lot. This is what happened. Every single model fell for it. Google uses stored versions of pages to see if marketers are changing date...

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This is really sad. Marketers are using research papers to manipulate LLMs. This research paper publication date was changed to be more recent. Nothing else changed. Same text, same quality. LLMs value freshness, signals a lot. This is what happened. Every single model fell for it. Google uses stored versions of pages to see if marketers are changing dates without changing content. LMS don't have the same experience dealing with spam.