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Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads (www.technologyreview.com)
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Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads::More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites —and the problem is growing fast.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What happened to reddit will probably happen on a much larger scale to the entire internet. First the enshittification destroys everything and then a new thing will emerge that much more resembles the old internet. Google's Web Environment Integrity could be the last nail in the coffin and speed up the change significantly.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The web is not the internet.

If Google does that, the people who cares will migrate to something else.

Example: the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fediverse runs on the web, though.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But not exclusively. That's why there are apps for it.

If the API is HTTP based, then it would be a matter of implementing another non-web-based protocol.

Edit: I'm not saying I would get rid of HTTP. I like RESTful services where they make sense. I'm just emphasizing that the fediverse doesn't have to depend on one single protocol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's absolutely nothing wrong with HTTP. Abandoning it would be like eliminating German because it was the language the Nazis used.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair point.

And you win today's Godwin Award!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who did I compare to a Nazi?