Marketer and writer Deana Burke created a fake deodorant brand to determine if AI would notice it, Inc.reports. It did. Three weeks later,
ChatGPT and other LLMs started recommending the nonexistent product, ahead of brands in clinical trials in some cases. “All it took was a cheap domain, a scrappy Vercel site with three pages of
copy, and a slop Substack article to get there,” Burke wrote.“ I didn’t
spam Reddit, I didn’t do a bunch of fake UGC videos. I just spent a few bucks on tokens to see what would happen.”