Al is filling up the internet with garbage spam sites
PCWorld|August 2023
Hundreds of sites serving up real ads over Al-generated text are causing headaches for users and advertisers alike.
MICHAEL CRIDER
Al is filling up the internet with garbage spam sites

A new wave of artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT (fave.co/3wnujwM) and Google Bard (fave.co/3zSZ1cq) may or may not change the way humans interact with technology forever. But before that happens, that wave is going to make the internet even more annoying. According to a new report, Al is being used to generate a huge amount of websites filled with random, garbage strings of text targeted at search engines, then plastered with advertising to generate revenue.

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