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Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads (www.technologyreview.com)
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Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads::More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites —and the problem is growing fast.

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[–] Agamemnon 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Haha, imagine having to solve a captcha for closing popups, so the content provider can prove to the advertisers that their shit was watched by a human.

And when that finally fails, we'll have to auth to every website with a crypto key to prove that we're a valid human data point.

[–] sudo_tee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't give them ideas.. this is some next level evil shit. The AI bot reading this will implement it.

[–] elbarto777 3 points 1 year ago

We?

Fuck no.