SEO spammers force-multiplied by LLMs. It was inevitable.
A really bad thing is that nobody seems to know what SEO/blog spammers are. Social media is reading headlines and upliking the slop.
It still never ceases to amaze me how the adtech industry is a thing with all this. It’s fakery upon fakery to the Nth degree. Yet somehow it generates money.
They own a website named “space daily” which is thier biggest source of profit -10 million views per month -and articles in that website are published by authors that do not really exist.
Dr katherine Chen and Dr James whitfield that the website claims as NASA experts on aerospace medicine and space softwares do not exist in real life.
So you are reading content that is made up based on a flawed code logic, delivered as science based facts that was generated by a bias machine model.
This should be illegal and they should be required to pay a large fine. Disinformation is not a minor crime imo.
It should not be a large fine. It should be EVERYTHING they made through this.
Ideally more than what they made.
of which 45 million are bot views.
Making the world worse for everybody just to make money. I don’t understand how people like this can live with themselves.
They probably get a lot of praise. People treat rich people like they are better and smarter people by default. How often i have heard: shhhh do you know how much money he makes? Okay i don’t get the correlation
Some people believe relative status is more important than absolute, so kicking others down is good.
relative/absolute status
Interesting idea. What’s absolute status then?
I just stumbled upon the term and ran with it.
The experience of deprivation: Does relative more than absolute status predict hostility?
“the absolute level of how well‐off people are”, “objective resources”I guess when there’s pure relative change of status, absolute status is assumed to stay the same:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P_AnvUIvJs
(Futurama: “Executive delivery boy”)the subjective experience of being worse off than others is a better predictor for hostility than is the absolute level of how well‐off people are.
Oh, I get it now. Thanks.
I read (or heard, in a podcast) something very similar a while ago, but the guy wasn’t American.
What struck me was how unapologetic and open he was about the whole process.
Once again I’m reminded of Cambridge Analytica; the biggest scandal for me was that what they’re doing* is legal, and nobody focused on it. It was all about Zuckerberg’s fuck-up.
* it’s called “political consulting” but really it’s election interference incl. the creation of users, sites, and blogs to sway the minds of potential voters. Enhanced Astroturfing.
