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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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[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 5 points 1 year ago

I feel Lemmy is the new .. eh forums golden age or something. Anyone will quickly be able to fire up an instance, I mean anyone can fire up a community today already!

We have been spoonfed dopamine triggers since Facebook came around, before that you'd be on the internet because you actively wanted something. I hope that's coming back.

Grr /old rant off :-)