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AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet::We're starting to see one prediction come true of how artificial intelligence will affect the internet: AI-generated spam is flooding the web.

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[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 92 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (25 children)

The web was already flooded with human generated spam, adding AI spam to the mix hasn't really changed anything meaningful - you still can't find useful content on the vast majority of webpages.

What we really need is a better search engine, one that doesn't include low quality content... that might be something AI can help with.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 78 points 9 months ago (18 children)

That used to be Google, when they were interested in providing quality results and showing ads alongside those results, instead of just.. being an ad company.

Before that, it was Yahoo, when they were interested in providing quality results, and showing ads, instead of just being an ad company.

Before that, it was AltaVista, when they were...

...Ask Jeeves...

We'll see who's next.

[–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Time to bring back web rings lmao

[–] HackyHorse3000@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Kagi basically did with Smallweb

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