FTC bans fake online reviews, inflated social media influence; rule takes effect in October - eviltoast
  • IHawkMike@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Yeah I get what you mean now. The SEO spamming AI garbage sites predate LLMs and are one of the worst things about the modern web. It’s a legitimately necessary skill to identify and filter them out. I actually think they probably contributed to some of reddit’s recent rise since everyone started adding “reddit” to their queries just to bypass that garbage.

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      4 months ago

      Exactly. It used to be easy enough to spot that spam, but it’s like damn near anything involving a given product is sponsored content/AI-generated junk and it’s a royal pain sifting through them to do legit research before plunking down a decent chunk of money on something.