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It all started with the "Traffic==Money" idea, a long time ago.

LLMs weren't even around a couple of years ago in any meaningful way and the internet was still full of dogshit. Maybe we can have better dogshit made with AI.

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The problem is that the dogshit machine was constrained in its output by the organization creating it. Sure you may have paid small amounts per article but your resources were still limited as cost scaled linearly with content creation. Now any size of organization can make a metric tonne of lexically unique content with a fixed cost given the incentive to do so at the moment, it’s all but inevitable.

Yes but the Google Bot LLMs will filter out drivel with their superior language understanding and network analysis of spam clues. I mean it could, if only Google wanted to clean up its act. Well, in the meantime I hopped on phind.com and use Google about 25%, when I just wan to go to a specific site or article. Slowly weaning off. Phind is fantastic, even its search results on the right side bar are clean.

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