More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites—and the problem is growing fast.

Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads::More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites —and the problem is growing fast.

Agamemnon
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Haha, imagine having to solve a captcha for closing popups, so the content provider can prove to the advertisers that their shit was watched by a human.

And when that finally fails, we’ll have to auth to every website with a crypto key to prove that we’re a valid human data point.

El Barto
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We?

Fuck no.

@sudo_tee@lemmy.world
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Don’t give them ideas… this is some next level evil shit. The AI bot reading this will implement it.

æjinei
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Isn’t this what OpenAI is doing with World Coin?

It appears that there’s already a black market for the verification tokens

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