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I have seen an extreme number of fake blogs showing up on search engine front pages recently. A massive army of random generated blogs from many countries to se
by zibzab 5y ago
I have seen an extreme number of fake blogs showing up on search engine front pages recently. A massive army of random generated blogs from many countries to sell you all kind of (real) products for their local markets.
Maybe GPT-3 is to blame for that.
- popotamonga 5y agoWhat else would text-generating AI be good for? 99% is for this. Lets just wait for the automated news sites that steal content from real sites and use AI to rewrite it so it looks original content.
- Minor49er 5y agoYou don't have to wait. It's already here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_journalism
- vesuvianvenus 5y agoSame here. Occasionally I will do an esoteric search and the only responses I get are obviously pages which were written automatically. They do not contain normal language, but rather a mish-mash of meaningless-outside-of-a-context text content. Very weird and hacky-- I always feel suspicious of such pages as if viewing them would somehow get me one step closer to getting my computer hacked.
- jokethrowaway 5y agoThey've always been there. That's literally what SEO companies do: create thematic content farm, link each other to become relevant and then sell backlinks to customers. They were just written by cheap labour overseas and used spinners to generate multiple unique pages. Eg. {this is great|awesome}, I can {generate 4 articles with this|make money while I drink pina colada on the beach}