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has anyone noticed pages that are just ai slop popping up recently? they have low quality information and serve no purpose but to waste time.

if you haven't experienced these, just search up a common tech problem and click on a generically named site. chances are, it will have a table of context and generally low quality writing. if you get lucky, there might also be some blatant lies in there(for example: this site claims garmin instinct watches have an sd card).

is there a ublock origin blocklist for these? thank you for suggestions.

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[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The problem predates the AI craze. SEO slop started snowballing before.

Highly recommend reading this: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Non-Google search engines are kinda the in-progress solutions, as the sheer volume of stuff to block is likely intractable. Google has the power to fight it themselves, but, well, see the writeup...

[-] blargle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Reject hypertext, return to gophe

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[-] skrlet13@feddit.cl 1 points 1 month ago

LWD is taking about the protocol btw, if someone is confused (Google Gemini genAI also exists)

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