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.

  • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    We’ve been asking ourselves this about email spam for several decades now.

    I think we’re vastly overestimating human intelligence. There’s obviously enough completely clueless people out there that will buy what these spammers are selling.

    • RivenRise@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      1 year ago

      Morning radio show I used to listen to talked all the time about the crap they bought off Instagram and tiktok ads. Like, ALL THE TIME. My ex and her family also bought a fair bit off of those sort of ads. Some type of people are just susceptible to it and others aren’t.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m not normally in favor of the death penalty, but I think we need public executions for spammers.

    • NotYourSocialWorker@feddit.nuEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I heard it said that spam is intentionally badly written because they don’t want people who can figure out it’s a scam to actually click the links.