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‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense (www.forbes.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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...with “key takeaways” and regurgitated paragraphs that all follow the same format. It’s gross, and yet it generates an article long enough with enough keywords to show up on Google.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can you remove the link that the author refused to link, or is that an automatic Lemmy feature?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Automatic feature. Anything that looks like a valid domain gets autolinked

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I can't edit the top box, but I edited mine to take out the duplicate text. The link was automatic though.