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AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)

submitted 7 months ago by ugjka@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] catch22@programming.dev 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is a direct consequence of Google targeting Reddit posts in its search results. Hopefully forum groups like Lemmy don't go get buried under a mountain of garbage as well. As long as advertisers are able to destroy public forums and communities with ads, with ad based revenue sites like Google directing who to target. We will always be creating something great while constantly trying to keep advertisers from turning it into a pile of crap.

[–] NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

The history of TV, in reverse. And then forward again.

At first, it was an impossibly expensive medium rules by a cartel of agencies and advertisers. Eventually, HBO comes along and shows you don't have to just make a bunch of lowest common denominator drivel.

Netflix eventually shows that the internet can be a way cheaper model than cable. Finally, money shows up in the streaming model, remaking advertiser friendly cable in the internet age. All in about 2.5 decades.