*said in allegro*
♪ Content, content everywhere.
Bait and switch and shovelware.
Farmers cranking out the wares.
AI multiplying spares.
Content, content everywhere. ♪
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#AISlop #baitAndSwitch #clickbait #content #contentFarms #listicles #poem #shovelware
@vikxin @NanoRaptor please let me know of any of those "#AI" #ContentFarms and #AIslop pages so I can add them to the public blocklist I maintain...
Pinterest’s endless scroll is getting clogged with AI‑generated pictures that look more like filler than inspiration. Bill Ready and Mantzarlis warn that content farms are turning the platform into a static visual dump. Read the WIRED deep‑dive on the rise of AI slop and what it means for creators. #PinterestAI #AIslop #ContentFarms #StaticVisuals
🔗 https://aidailypost.com/news/pinterest-users-say-aigenerated-images-are-flooding-their-imageheavy
YouTube: From Stage to Simulation
#AITraining #DigitalLabor #YouTubeShift #ContentFarms #TheInternetIsCrack #PlatformControl
#DeadInternetTheory is already in #fatigue stages. I don't think it's too much to ask #parents to curate a video collection for your kids rather than relying on streaming.
#YouTube in itself is going to be ground zero for what's to come, and it'll be much worse than #ElsaGate ever was.
Do not, I repeat, do not let your kids go unsupervised on content platforms anymore. The #ContentFarms cannot be trusted.
The WORST Trend I've EVER Seen On YouTube (AI Cat Videos)
https://youtu.be/EJSvoNBPI8g
The original source of the claim that ChatGPT overuses the word ‘delve’ seems to be AI Phrase Finder which makes the claim on the basis of “our dataset of 50,000 ChatGPT responses”. No more information is provided about this dataset. There’s also no information provided about what constitutes the ‘most common words’ within it. Presumably the most common words are ‘the’ (etc) which suggests they are using a different standard of what constitutes a common word. But they don’t say what this is!
This is not a reliable source which raises the question of why this claim spread as widely as it did. There’s an interesting bibliometrics debate which suggests this might not be 100% nonsense. But as far as I can see the claim spread through a network of (possibly AI generated!) content farms, as well as being credulously shared through social media. I’m not saying that ChatGPT doesn’t have tells, only that establishing them authoritatively is a methodologically complex undertaking which would only establish deeply imperfect results.
I just recently abandoned by Lemmy.ml account and also I've stopped doom scrolling #instagram.
I'm one of those "meme friends", you know, someone who does the #doomscrolling for you, and I just stopped one day and released an IG story saying "do your own damned doomscrolling".
This is because Instagram is now filled up with #bots and #contentfarms. For every 30-40 of useless garbage and mindrot, I got maybe 1-2 good videos/reels.
The internet, including social media, is filling with #spam.
Carl Miller of Demos' Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, on "disinformation", hackers, content farms, memes, and power in the digital age.
#disinformation #contentFarms #hacking #cybersecurity #socialMedia #London
Interesting read. Some of the examples are funny, but it won't take much to churn out more convincing, biased "news" stories.
Dear #YouTube,
I enjoy wasting some of my day watching some of the content that folks create and publish on your site from time to time.
But please, for the love of RNG, can I please have some way for your algorithm to understand that I have been saying "Don't Recommend Channel" to literal scores of "shitty, badly edited text to speech or just really bad narrators read #Reddit posts" #ContentFarms and just.. maybe stop recommending that kind of channel time and time and time and time again?
XOXO,
Me
〝All these sites, inoffensive or onerous, produce content because they reap the rewards of so-called programmatic advertisements.〞
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-artificial-intelligence-ai-generated-websites-elections-transparency-20231117-yq3u65zhibfslfwv44y6p3t2o4-story.html
Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads
>140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites, a growing problem
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/26/1075504/junk-websites-filled-with-ai-generated-text-are-pulling-in-money-from-programmatic-ads
People are using AI chatbots to fill junk websites with AI-generated text that attracts paying advertisers, according to a new report f. the media research organization NewsGuard that was shared exclusively with MIT Technology Review.
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#JunkWebsites #misinformation #ProgrammaticAds #ContentFarms #NLP
#AI #Media #News #ContentFarms #GenerativeAI: "The news-rating group NewsGuard has found dozens of news websites generated by AI chatbots proliferating online, according to a report published Monday, raising questions about how the technology may supercharge established fraud techniques.
The 49 websites, which were independently reviewed by Bloomberg, run the gamut. Some are dressed up as breaking news sites with generic-sounding names like News Live 79 and Daily Business Post, while others share lifestyle tips, celebrity news or publish sponsored content. But none disclose they’re populated using AI chatbots such as OpenAI Inc.’s ChatGPT and potentially Alphabet Inc.’s Google Bard, which can generate detailed text based on simple user prompts. Many of the websites began publishing this year as the AI tools began to be widely used by the public."
Well, damn. It’s really hard to know where all your data goes. As social media is being reported by more and more sources as news in and of itself (in addition to the links and videos shared elsewhere), it’s getting harder to avoid the kind of content farm that it is.
#contentfarms #socialmedia #tiktok #dataprivacy
TikTok has your data even if you've never used the app: Report - ABC News https://apple.news/A1ArLFHZeSvqKMnyoBLZ3fA
"What are we going to do about Generative AI content farms?" asks @davekarpf.
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/what-are-we-going-to-do-about-generative
ChatGPT helps people to churn-put heaps of low-to-average quality content, which is good enough for advertising copy, and excellent for wrecking online search. Until now, people and big tech companies have been pretty good at discerning between humans and bots, but this is about to get a whole lot more difficult.
#introduction
> whoami
From Gametek Jeopardy on my i286 to web dev on Notepad later FrontPage 98 and Macromedia Dreamweaver, I've been geeking out as long as I can remember.
#USAF - Server Admin / #threathunting
DoD Contractor - RMF #FML
Managed Intel Startup - Adversary Detection / #insiderthreat / #disinformation / #contentfarms / #dfir
Currently nerding it up at Cisco #Talos #incidentresponse
Always learning...
...or watching #baseball ⚾
...or #vanlife #camping 🚐
...or wishing I was playing #pingpong 🏓
