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Low effort websites made easier by LLM generated text. Itβs not new, just made easier with the ubiquity of LLM tools. Think of it as the latest generation of spam websites π
Ironically one of DDG's early selling points, before they fully jumped on the privacy bandwagon, was that they would filter out results for low-effort content farms (this was pre-LLM stuff).
I had used DDG since almost the beginning and it was one of the things I was originally sold on. It's difficult to find a source for it now but I did find this: https://web.archive.org/web/20110608072253/https://www.technologyreview.com/blog/post.aspx?bid=377&bpid=25532
Ah I see. Junk βnewsβ and other regurgitated blah. Yeah, Iβd guess any free search engine will probably be bloated with that. Not to mention that itβs google, bing, and orange bing. Not a ton of crawlers out there indexing everything is there?
The only other (not absolutely tiny) one I'm aware of is brave, but it has its own issues