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https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64444
Report: Major Media Outlets Partnered With AI Company Are Filling Google With AI-Generated Trash
[...] Major media outlets have reportedly partnered with an AI company called AdVon Commerce to publish tens of thousands of fake product reviews and fill up Google Search results with piles of AI-generated trash.
While sites like InformationLiberation are manually blacklisted by Google's "trusted flaggers" for telling the truth, major media outlets which are manually whitelisted by Google for pushing regime propaganda are given top results for any garbage they publish.
Regime media have been taking advantage of this setup for years with low-quality clickbait but now they're taking spamming/SEO manipulation to a whole new level with AI.
I've suspected for quite some time those diversional "news article" clickbait sites ( like "She thought it was a dog. When the vet saw it, he called the Police! " ) are written by AI, designed to make you fish through myriads of buttons to get the next snippet of story.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Saturday May 11 2024, @04:32PM (3 children)
We've all seen it, in general, but I'm surprised they included no links.
They mentioned the Miami Herald. I checked that out and it's entirely filler, sure, but not as bad as I've seen. Filler material like this article:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article288459253.html [miamiherald.com]
It may or may not be AI generated, but it could be replaced by AI-spam and wouldn't be any worse.
If you search for "best yoga mat" as highlighted in the article, that is a weird mix of semi-real filler on real websites and absolute AI blogspam on no-name blogs.
If you go to Amazon or Harbor Freight you can see classic American Tool brand names that used to mean something but were purchased and used to sell Chinese junk products. Its a stereotype of the 2020s that any tool brand name including a USA place name in its trademark or that was known as a quality mfgr in the 1950s is in the 2020s always bottom quality trash made in China and sold for 90% of the price of a real product despite being only 10% of the quality of a real product. My point in bringing this up is I expect to see this in media content farms ad the media self-destructs itself for political reasons. So at some point in the near future I expect you'll be able to buy the trademarked name "Miami Herald" for maybe $5 and then flood it with AI-spam for advertising purposes until people learn to avoid it. This would seem to be the endgame for all failing companies.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Saturday May 11 2024, @07:53PM (2 children)
Yes, AI produces low quality garbage filling the search engines, but...
With over 5 billion humans with internet access, over 4 billion of them with sufficient education to "write for a living..." is it any different than junk catalogs in your snail box? Sure, the price for low quality copy just fell from $0.001 per word to $0.00001 per word, and $0.10 per photo to $0.0001 per "photo", layout from $0.10 per page to $0.0001 per page... so we're getting a lot more pages of crap, but will it be accomplishing anything more than the free firestarter that comes delivered every day?
Any search engine with a hope of relevancy in the coming decade will be developing a quality filter which, hopefully, will get rid of the human garbage output along with the AI worthless junk.
Also, I do hold out hope that properly developed and run AI will occasionally produce something of value as well... even if it's just a good summary of a search query. Maybe someday.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 12 2024, @10:02AM (1 child)
Yes, it's different. It's junk catalogs that look exactly like a handwritten letter from your dad, including details from last week's lunch.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday May 12 2024, @04:31PM
Interesting perspective but I thought about it and look at spam; hasn't "evolved" in at least a quarter century. Possible that webspam will not evolve to that level either.