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ugjka@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Google News is indexing and promoting websites that immediately rip off others with AI clones of their articles. These websites are absolutely littered with Google ads.

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Google News is indexing and promoting websites that immediately rip off others with AI clones of their articles. These websites are absolutely littered with Google ads.

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ugjka@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Google News is indexing and promoting websites that immediately rip off others with AI clones of their articles. These websites are absolutely littered with Google ads. Our website, in which real humans do journalism, is not indexed by Google News https://www.404media.co/google-news-is-boosting-garbage-ai-generated-articles/
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    They’re called MFAs (Made For AdSense), nothing changed since the early AdSense days. It’s unlikely that Google is knowingly boosting them, it’s just that search engines have always been easy to game with artificial link building and keyword density maximization, MFA owners happen to be among the people most likely to invest a lot in cheating their way to the top of search engine rankings. AI only made creating MFAs easier.

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    Oh god, of course they are. Haven’t checked on Microsoft News in a while, but the last time I did, they were promoting tons upon tons of transphobic propaganda.

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    direct link: https://www.404media.co/google-news-is-boosting-garbage-ai-generated-articles/

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        Why ironic?

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    So just websites then? They’re all designed to maximize ad space over content anyway.

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