This is fucking crazy but not surprising. The total cynic in me could never be surprised but it's still disappointing to be reminded of the absolute sprint to the absolute bottom that is taking place, well basically everywhere and with everything. I think capitalism needs to crash fucking hard so people stop living in fucking dreamland. We aren't even done with the joke bullshit crypto scam and even more destructive scam of "AI" is here with the full backing of all western institutions (not to imply western institutions have any credibility but they do have power). Capitalism has now in its cannibalism phase and it's productive capacity has long been exhausted

I wanted to see one of the sites (science daily) run by these clown brothers and instead found this

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/space-daily-bias-and-credibility/

Where a totally real fact check site tells me that science daily has high factual reliability 😂

I think I've discovered a subtle change in Google's philosophy.

You can never be too fucking greedy.
Don't be evil.

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Google is encouraging ginormous tsunami waves of AI slop. Google could put companies like BBM so low in the ranking - they'd starve to death. But instead Google welcomes shit like this because it makes them money.

BBM has indulged in breathtaking acts of dishonesty — often in ways that seem specifically devised to manipulate platforms owned by Google, where Ahrefs data suggests that it sources the preponderance of its traffic. (Last year, BBM wrote in a press release that its enormous audience was “driven by organic reach through Google Discover and search.”)

One of BBM’s many unscrupulous practices, insiders confirmed to us, is that it has often invented entire fake personas for nonexistent writers — we found more than 50 spread across its dozens of sites — and published content under their names without revealing to readers that they weren’t real people.

In many cases, BBM has even outfitted these fictional writers with impressive-sounding bogus credentials as it uses their bylines to churn out AI-generated material.

The biggest Ponzi Scheme even known to Man.