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Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads
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this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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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.
Isn’t this what OpenAI is doing with World Coin?
It appears that there’s already a black market for the verification tokens
We?
Fuck no.
Don't give them ideas.. this is some next level evil shit. The AI bot reading this will implement it.