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Web search quality plummets amid AI-generated spam and marketing

The author expresses concern over the increasing amount of low-quality, spammy content on the web, making it difficult to distinguish genuine human experiences from AI-generated hallucinations or marketing. This degradation of search results raises doubts about the possibility of fixing the issue. AI

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IMPACT Web search quality may continue to degrade due to AI-generated spam, impacting user trust and information retrieval.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece from a user on a social media platform expressing concerns about web content quality.

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 · [email protected] ·

    I'm worried about web search. The slop spam is just so bad these days, in so many subjects! I often cannot tell if I'm reading actual human testimony, third han

    I'm worried about web search. The slop spam is just so bad these days, in so many subjects! I often cannot tell if I'm reading actual human testimony, third hand hallucinations, or covert automated marketing. The scary part is I dunno if this is fixable. 😣 # ai # internet