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> when I look for it, use it myself, or others share what they're doing with it. I guess I'm still waiting for it to take over Dunno if you follow gaming news

> when I look for it, use it myself, or others share what they're doing with it. I guess I'm still waiting for it to take over Dunno if you follow gaming news at all, but AI spam has become the rule if you look for anything on new popular games If you want to know how to solve a puzzle or compare two characters or something, it is almost guaranteed that you will come across pages of search results that seem like generated content They are usually wrong, too

orbital-decay 3y ago
Current amount of SEO spam is nowhere near the 2007 levels, when the entire first page of Google results was your search query with stuff like "xxx", "2007 crack", or "download free" attached to it. >If you want to know how to solve a puzzle or compare two characters or something, it is almost guaranteed that you will come across pages of search results that seem like generated content This kind of content was never genuine. It was always low effort trash made to cheat search engines. It was either outsourced to copywriters regurgitating the same content over and over, or automatically generated when possible. Automating it with LLMs simply made it obvious. Amazon book scams is the age-old tradition at this point, it exists for well over a decade and is a result of Amazon not willing to spend even one cent on manual curation. OP might have a point, but it's still mostly typical microblogging ragebait with unrelated stuff mixed in.
- klyrs 3y ago
  > This kind of content was never genuine. Maybe not in your lifetime, but in mine, high-quality game walkthroughs with in-depth statistics were pretty ordinary for even fairly niche games.
  - epiccoleman 3y ago
    No kidding. Pour one out for the glory days of .txt game guides ala GameFAQs. No pictures, no ads, just pure plaintext information. Glorious.
xboxnolifes 3y ago
> Dunno if you follow gaming news at all, but AI spam has become the rule if you look for anything on new popular games At least in regards to game articles, this has been my experience for at least a decade. It wasn't AI spam, but it was spam everywhere non-the-less. I'm sure it's even worse now, but it was bad enough even 10 years ago that I've stopped bothering using google to find most game information years ago.

orbital-decay 3y ago

Current amount of SEO spam is nowhere near the 2007 levels, when the entire first page of Google results was your search query with stuff like "xxx", "2007 crack", or "download free" attached to it. >If you want to know how to solve a puzzle or compare two characters or something, it is almost guaranteed that you will come across pages of search results that seem like generated content This kind of content was never genuine. It was always low effort trash made to cheat search engines. It was either outsourced to copywriters regurgitating the same content over and over, or automatically generated when possible. Automating it with LLMs simply made it obvious. Amazon book scams is the age-old tradition at this point, it exists for well over a decade and is a result of Amazon not willing to spend even one cent on manual curation. OP might have a point, but it's still mostly typical microblogging ragebait with unrelated stuff mixed in.

klyrs 3y ago
> This kind of content was never genuine. Maybe not in your lifetime, but in mine, high-quality game walkthroughs with in-depth statistics were pretty ordinary for even fairly niche games.
- epiccoleman 3y ago
  No kidding. Pour one out for the glory days of .txt game guides ala GameFAQs. No pictures, no ads, just pure plaintext information. Glorious.

xboxnolifes 3y ago

> Dunno if you follow gaming news at all, but AI spam has become the rule if you look for anything on new popular games At least in regards to game articles, this has been my experience for at least a decade. It wasn't AI spam, but it was spam everywhere non-the-less. I'm sure it's even worse now, but it was bad enough even 10 years ago that I've stopped bothering using google to find most game information years ago.