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An AI-Generated Content Empire Is Spreading Fake Celebrity Images on Googlewww.vice.com A ring of websites using AI and run by an aspiring movie star are behind fake celebrity images featured in Google results, Motherboard found.
The digital revolution has faileddisconnect.blog The benefits of the internet are eroding. The AI boom is only accelerating their demise.
Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articleswww.404media.co 404 Media reviewed multiple examples of AI rip-offs making their way into Google News. Google said it doesn't focus on how an article was produced—by an AI or human—opening the way for more AI-gen...
SEO Guy Mocks Google for Deindexing His "Gibberish" AI Sitesfuturism.com A case study in SEO bros, the new Google spam update, and the AI-generated content continuing to fill the web.
Julia Angwin: “AI makes it much easier to flood the zone with misinformation”reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk As she launches nonprofit Proof News, the reporter shares tips to cover this emerging technology and argues cutting deals with AI platforms is not worth it.
Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code of Conductgizmodo.com Google’s unofficial motto has long been the simple phrase “don’t be evil.” But that’s over, according to the code of conduct that Google distributes to its employees. The phrase was removed sometime i...
Paul Taylor | Who read it?www.lrb.co.uk Altmetric is a website that tracks mentions of academic research on social media. Last week, a paper published in...
Phil vs. LLMs - Funranium Labswww.funraniumlabs.com Last year, my friend Ed made a post regarding the nascent proliferation of ChatGPT and competitors into various search engines and other products. With a moment’s contemplation after reading it, I jus...
Google Appears to Have Partnered With the Company Behind Sports Illustrated’s Fake, AI-Generated Writersfuturism.com Google appears to have quietly struck a deal with AdVon Commerce, the contractor linked to Sports Illustrated's AI explosive scandal.
AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO'www.404media.co A market for manipulating Reddit using AI have emerged.
Excessive use of words like ‘commendable’ and ‘meticulous’ suggests ChatGPT has been used in thousands of scientific studiesenglish.elpais.com A London librarian has analyzed millions of articles in search of uncommon terms abused by artificial intelligence programs
Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internetwww.404media.co Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore interact to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all...
Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industryfuturism.com Our investigation into AdVon Commerce, the AI contractor at the heart of scandals at USA Today and Sports Illustrated.
Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answerswww.washingtonpost.com The tech giant is rolling out AI-generated answers that displace links to human-written websites
AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hellwww.404media.co Google image search results are turning up AI-generated images of celebrities and leading users to sites that host AI-generated nudes celebrities made to look like children.
I Paid $365.63 to Replace 404 Media With AIwww.404media.co Paying a freelancer on Fiverr to create a plagiarizing ChatGPT-powered news site revealed an industry of middlemen and services trying to game Google Search.