AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO'
AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO'
A market for manipulating Reddit using AI have emerged.
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I called this shit out like a year ago. It's the end of any viable online searching having much truth to it. All we'll have left is youtube videos from project farm to trust.
It kinda seems like the end of the Google era. What will we search Google for when the results are all crap? This is the death gasps of the internet I/we grew up with.
Remember when you could type a vague plot of a film you'd heard about into Google and it'd be the first result?
Nah doesn't work anymore
Saw a trailer for a french film so I searched "french film 2024 boys live in woods seven years"
Google - 2024 BEST FRENCH FILMS/TOP TEN FRENCH FILMS YOU MUST SEE THIS YEAR/ALL TIME BEST FRENCH MOVIES
Absolute fucking gash
I've not been too impressed with Kagi search, but at least the top result there was "Frères 2024"
Remember when you could type a vague plot of a film you’d heard about into Google and it’d be the first result?
I honestly don't remember this at all. I remember priding myself on my "google-fu" and how to search it to get what i, or other people, needed. Which usually required understanding the precise language that you would need to use, not something vague. But over the years it's gotten harder and harder, and now I get frustrated with how hard it has become to find something useful. I've had to go back to finding places I trust for information and looking through them.
Although, ironically, I can do what you're talking about with ai now.
I honestly don't remember this at all.
It was absolutely a thing and one of the reasons Google became wildly popular at first
When?
TUESDAY
Maybe web rings of the 90s were not such a bad idea! Let's bring 'em back!
They would poison that shit as well unfortunately. The concept is great though.
Eh, how'd you do that?
Do what? Webrings?
How do you poison them.
Create sites that look like legit websites, then slowly ramp-up the bullshit. Same tactic as always.
So? Every part of a web ring is a site the webmaster of which can remove that banner at any moment.
Gemini webrings are the future?
I'm feeling myself old and I'm 28.
Cause in my early childhood in 2003-2007 we would resort to search engines only when we couldn't find something by better (but more manual and social) means.
Because - mwahahaha - most of the results were machine-generated crap.
So I actually feel very uplift due to people promising the Web to get back to norm in this sense.
I ran into this issue while researching standing desks recently. There are very few places on the internet where you can find verifiably human-written comparisons between standing desk brands. Comments on Reddit all seem to be written by bots or people affiliated with the brands. Luckily I managed to find a YouTube reviewer who did some real comparisons.