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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How do you know it isn't now (see: Dead-Internet Theory)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Beat me to it, you ninja lemming

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I could believe most of the internet is bot activity by now, but what I don't believe is that most of the internet that humans actually interact with is bots. Though that number is certainly rising.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same. I'm not a conspiracy theorist. However, most top Google results are those garbage sites that are definitely not written by humans. I wonder if search will die soon as bots begin to dominate SEO (more than they already do). The search paradigm will definitely have to change.