We're starting to see one prediction come true of how artificial intelligence will affect the internet: AI-generated spam is flooding the web.

AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet::We’re starting to see one prediction come true of how artificial intelligence will affect the internet: AI-generated spam is flooding the web.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    34·
    10 months ago

    I’ve seen countless palworld articles climb to the top of Google. They are awful… They don’t even have correct information about the game. Google really is imploding before our eyes.

    • Diurnambule@jlai.luEnglish
      151·
      10 months ago

      Yeah agreed on that you can’t Google thing anymore. People were speaking of enshitification, I was thinking they were exaggerating, but seing the results around palworld that crazy. Try to find a site with egg combination base don parents. Good luck I got a good one in page 4-5.

      • Liam Mayfair@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        I rely on Google Search far less now than I used to for this reason. People had already gotten Google SEO down to a science and were poisoning search results very effectively. This AI-generated bullshit is taking it to a whole new level.

        I’ve decided to use alternative search engines like DDG, SearXNG, etc. hoping their indexing criteria will be different enough current SEO techniques won’t affect them as much… For now.

    • inverted_deflector@startrek.websiteEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Even before the big AI thing this was a common thing for trendy games. Frustrating is it would be websites that arent even gaming focused that would get “top 10 x” or “how to get x in popular game” or “console commands for game x!” . And of course since the top result isnt a game website it was just trying to grab clicks it was a not great or complete article.

    • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      The irony of some of the articles being clearly written by AI while also being about “Palword because someone said AI” is rich.