LOL, LMAO: Inside the first 'SEO heist' of the AI era. Web2 is going great! - eviltoast

Basically: use GPT to help copy an entire web site, then jack their search results, get profit. Aided by the fact that search engines are shit. This is something you could do before, GAI just made it faster.

Web2 is going great!

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        even putting aside philosophy/ethics, have they never heard of common expressions like “too much of a good thing” or “the dose makes the poison”? it’s just an extremely, extremely common idea basically everywhere except in the tech industry

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          Taking the totally wrong lesson away from the story of the tragedy of the commons because reading more about it than just the ‘this is a real thing’ is too much work, and now they can argue ‘if I don’t do it somebody else will’.