Google has been filled with automatically generated SEO spam like that for at least 5 years, maybe much longer. ChatGPT generation is just the latest tech and is better at writing something that sounds legitimate. It still is fairly noticeable on many sites though.
Is this the beginning of the end, if the advertisers stop spending money then what’s the incentive for tech bros? Are we heading back to y2k internet where people made things just because.
We can only hope.
Bot websites filled with bot ads, paid for by bots with bot money because they are viewed by many bots.
I actually thought about setting up one of these myself, just to see how much money I could make off it.
I wonder what the “apex” for all of this is - as in, when do we hit critical mass and the advertisers pull out of this nonsense dumpster fire that is the current internet.
Surely, at some point, if the advertisers know they’re advertising to no one aside from bots on websites that host fake content, then they will pull out and the service providers will have to try and actually make the internet “usable” again? Perhaps I’m being too generous.
Soubds like if advertisers pull out we’ll see the internet just move to subscription/pay per use based models. Unless they can sell your data like social media you will probably have to pay for entry.
