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Re: The most talented person in the world

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Post by api »

This kind of spam was already destroying the web before LLMs came along. Now it’s being accelerated by thousands of times.

Mainstream web search is probably cooked. Kagi and other niche players might have a chance if the fact that they are not beholden to advertisers lets them introduce features to do things like downrank content with ads. Kagi has “small web” which I think includes this in its weighting.

Open social media is probably cooked too. In the future it’s going to require proof of human identity and will be more heavily moderated.

The future of social is closed forums. Even those are really having to fight bots though.

The other pervasive awful trend of the moment is everything becoming like John Deere tractors: cloud connected, DRMed, with subscriptions and/or planned obsolescence.

Capitalism is supposed to reward people for creating value, but today it seems like it’s far easier and more profitable to just extract rent or scam. I am not sure how to fix this.

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Post by WarOnPrivacy »

All of those sites are labeled as "A Venture 4th Media Company" which has such wondrous important content all run by the same "writer" on:

    https://mtbinsider.com/author/jodie-chiffey/
    https://turfandtill.com/author/jodie-chiffey/
    https://www.betterwander.com/author/jodie-chiffey/
    https://artofgrill.com/author/jodie-chiffey/
    https://theathleticfoot.com/author/jodie-chiffey/
    https://altprotein.com/team-members/jodie-chiffey/
    https://digitalguyde.com/us/
    https://total3dprinting.org/author/jodie-chiffey/
Each of which is registered by NameCheap, who can never seem to kick their addiction to bottom feeders.

Each of which is behind Cloudflare, the official latrine of planet dysentery.

disclosure: I use too.

Re: The most talented person in the world

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Post by WarOnPrivacy »

ggm wrote: post #4

Buries the lede. WHY would you make so many talanted instances of Jodie? Whats the upside. How do the financials work and is it a stake, or paid labour?

> WHY would you make so many talanted instances of Jodie?

One name is twice as easy to invent as two names.

Re: The most talented person in the world

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Post by grugagag »

BobbyTables2 wrote: post #2

I’m amazed my medical websites… The top 5-10 sites all seem have identical wording for common conditions. In the age of copyright enforcement and DMCA antics, I don’t understand how this continues year after year.

They’re all the same thing, same owners likely

Re: The most talented person in the world

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Post by dalemhurley »

Google has an incentive to keep these links going. Google makes money by you continually returning back to Google. If you get the prefect result on your first click, then you move on with your day. If you get junk, then you go back to Google and click the next junk link and repeat. Each time someone visits one of these content farms and returns back to Google, then it is more advertising dollars for Google.
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