Programmatic ads placed on programmatic content boosted by programmatic view bots.

More seriously, this is ridiculous. Websites are junk because they are filled with programmatic ads in the first place.

Soon the entire internet will just be bots shit posting back and forth.

Oh no :( Won’t somebody think of the poor advertisers???

I’d like to help. What’s the best way to create a garbage site to make money off these advertising scums? I’ll give the money to planned parenthood.

Fuck the whole advertising industry

The more direct problem for people in general is that finding what you’re looking for has become even more of a “needle in a haystack” problem than it already was.

The indirect problem is that if genuine content creators can’t get much out making content (not necessarilly money: for many simply the satisfaction of seeing how many people liked their content is incentive enough) because viewers are much more dispersed due to the AI-rewritten info cloning sites, then there won’t be much new info for the cloners to copy in rewritten form, which is maybe fine for “questions already answered 1000 times” but won’t be for questions or tutorials about new stuff.

I feel like this is the ad-equivalent of the sub-prime mortgage situation, pre-crisis. With mortgages, you had loans that no individual bank or bank manager would want, and then you had an automated process that obfuscated the individual loan details and produced financial products that could be sold as high quality. In the ad world, it’s the same thing. You have these websites that nobody would buy ads from, individually, but somehow, through an automatic process offered by Google and friends, the worthless product becomes valuable.

The irony that this story was posted by a bot…

Cue the world’s smallest violin. Not sure how this is any consumer’s problem lol.

Maybe, just maybe, advertising needs to become more carefully selected and regulated rather than the clown fiesta it has been since the dawn of the internet where Google and friends want to ‘set and forget’ and milk money for eternity.

But you know the reaction won’t be sensible lol, instead we will get an AI arms race of AI adverts vs AI advert reviewers.

The fact the ad industry doesn’t have people veto the platforms they advertise on is a negative aspect of modern society. I see no issue with this going down. I’m far more lenient to capitalism when they produce sponsorships and financially aid events.

“Junk websites filled with AI-generated text”

And here I thought this was going to be a headline about Reddit.

It’s been this way for ages, though it was mechanical Turk created text and stolen content.

I don’t really mind adverts, like when I see a creator I like doing a raid shadow legends bit I’m happy to see that they’re making money from a shitty game rather than me having to pay.

And I know the established wisdom is that they track everything you do and say but honestly half my adverts are for things that make no sense to me like tampons and investment services, I really think them saying how well they know the user is just to get a advertiser money and isn’t really as true as we fear. Not that I think it’s a good thing but it’s so trivial compared to everything else happening in the world Iv don’t really care

I like this