More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites—and the problem is growing fast.

Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads::More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites —and the problem is growing fast.

  • o_oli@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    11 months ago

    Cue the world’s smallest violin. Not sure how this is any consumer’s problem lol.

    Maybe, just maybe, advertising needs to become more carefully selected and regulated rather than the clown fiesta it has been since the dawn of the internet where Google and friends want to ‘set and forget’ and milk money for eternity.

    But you know the reaction won’t be sensible lol, instead we will get an AI arms race of AI adverts vs AI advert reviewers.

    • Agamemnon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      11 months ago

      Haha, imagine having to solve a captcha for closing popups, so the content provider can prove to the advertisers that their shit was watched by a human.

      And when that finally fails, we’ll have to auth to every website with a crypto key to prove that we’re a valid human data point.