• OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    SEO spammers force-multiplied by LLMs. It was inevitable.

    A really bad thing is that nobody seems to know what SEO/blog spammers are. Social media is reading headlines and upliking the slop.

    It still never ceases to amaze me how the adtech industry is a thing with all this. It’s fakery upon fakery to the Nth degree. Yet somehow it generates money.

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      4 days ago

      becauses advertising is the original LLM anyway. you tell business owners what they want to hear. at the big-business level you just need a graph saying X thing probably gets seen by people to poiint to, they already have X% of revenues set aside for advertising (whatever arbitrary # happens to be “industry standard”) long as you have graphs sqying the line goes up.

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      There are such obvious posts on places like Facebook and X that are obvious rage bait and those people, even if it’s 1/100000 of a cent still make something from you interacting with those posts. Even if you go in to the comments to tell others not to comment they made money off of you.

      The best reaction is to scroll on by

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        3 days ago

        They still get the “impression” just by it being rendered and on the screen for a certain amount of time.