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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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[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The latter is infuriating to me. If I’m actually searching for a product, by all means show me an ad for the type of product I’m looking for. That’s a win-win scenario. How these mainstream sites put up literal scam ads I don’t understand. How can they be paying better than Ford?

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We've come full circle. Original web searches sucked because you couldn't trust the results to be ranked in a useful way. You could search for a historical fact and you were just as likely to get an 8th grader's homework they posted online instead of a credible source. Then Google came along and solved that problem with their magic algorithm. Only took them a little more than 20 years to get to the point where their algorithm now sucks so bad that we're back to where we started. But instead of an 8th graders homework, we get AI articles that appear to be trained from said homework. Fascinating.

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Google overall has just turned to shit. You can’t trust any new thing they do, and their existing ones are degrading all the time.

[–] FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah ads are a plague and not just online.

I can’t walk around my town without having billboards and super bright ads shoved down my throat.

Driving down the motorway, yeah we’ve got ads here too. Don’t look at your phone but sure read this advert as you fly past at 70mph.