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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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[-] IRQBreaker@lemmy.kozow.com 125 points 1 year ago

"...wasting massive amounts of ad money."

I don't see this as a problem.

[-] phillaholic@lemm.ee 80 points 1 year ago

And our time. I’m sick of googling something and getting nothing out these fluff pieces with little or no real information. It’s made Google near useless for entire subjects. Try searching for troubleshooting on anything Apple for example.

[-] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

This is why you need to add reddit to the search.

Which is sad as hell.

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