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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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[–] o_oli@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cue the world's smallest violin. Not sure how this is any consumer's problem lol.

Maybe, just maybe, advertising needs to become more carefully selected and regulated rather than the clown fiesta it has been since the dawn of the internet where Google and friends want to 'set and forget' and milk money for eternity.

But you know the reaction won't be sensible lol, instead we will get an AI arms race of AI adverts vs AI advert reviewers.

[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Haha, imagine having to solve a captcha for closing popups, so the content provider can prove to the advertisers that their shit was watched by a human.

And when that finally fails, we'll have to auth to every website with a crypto key to prove that we're a valid human data point.

[–] aejinei@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Isn’t this what OpenAI is doing with World Coin?

It appears that there’s already a black market for the verification tokens

[–] sudo_tee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't give them ideas.. this is some next level evil shit. The AI bot reading this will implement it.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We?

Fuck no.