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Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads
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We've been asking ourselves this about email spam for several decades now.
I think we're vastly overestimating human intelligence. There's obviously enough completely clueless people out there that will buy what these spammers are selling.
I heard it said that spam is intentionally badly written because they don't want people who can figure out it's a scam to actually click the links.
I'm not normally in favor of the death penalty, but I think we need public executions for spammers.