Making the world worse for everybody just to make money. I don't understand how people like this can live with themselves.

They own a website named “space daily” which is thier biggest source of profit -10 million views per month -and articles in that website are published by authors that do not really exist.

Dr katherine Chen and Dr James whitfield that the website claims as NASA experts on aerospace medicine and space softwares do not exist in real life.

So you are reading content that is made up based on a flawed code logic, delivered as science based facts that was generated by a bias machine model.

SEO spammers force-multiplied by LLMs. It was inevitable.

A really bad thing is that nobody seems to know what SEO/blog spammers are. Social media is reading headlines and upliking the slop.

It still never ceases to amaze me how the adtech industry is a thing with all this. It's fakery upon fakery to the Nth degree. Yet somehow it generates money.

I read (or heard, in a podcast) something very similar a while ago, but the guy wasn't American.

What struck me was how unapologetic and open he was about the whole process.

Once again I'm reminded of Cambridge Analytica; the biggest scandal for me was that what they're doing* is legal, and nobody focused on it. It was all about Zuckerberg's fuck-up.

* it's called "political consulting" but really it's election interference incl. the creation of users, sites, and blogs to sway the minds of potential voters. Enhanced Astroturfing.

of which 45 million are bot views.

Uncle Ted we need you

This isn't new. Look at Valnet.