I run a legitimate website with actual people publishing content... sometimes, and I get offers from advertisers for sponsored content. If I didn't earn a living on a day job, auto-generated content farming might be something I'd go into. Morally objectionable, but it's a living.
Secondary would be to just take content from Reddit and add some low effort captions to it, then target old people on Facebook or whatever. Again morally objectionable, but there's a LOT of people who really browse the internet uncritically.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/08/dead-...
I wonder if anyone can quantify and keep trends through time of an estimated percentage of auto-generated/bot content, at least for major domains.
There is a subreddit called SubSimulatorGPT2 [0] where the author runs GPT2 on 130 subreddits and uploads posts from each of them. I'm subscribed to the subreddit and often get posts from there that I don't realize are fake until something small is off and I check the username.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/btfhks/wh...
Not OP, but this is the fun stuff that a markov chain text generator comes up with.
Did you marry twice?
He & his ex were on definitely non-friendly terms at the time. Later, they got over their hostilities. No implication that they are now friends, let alone in a relationship.
His ex may have been inquiring about the odd blog posts mostly because she'd have to tell the kids "your father is [in jail|dead|etc.]", rather than because she cared about him.
Therapy and maturity and ditching some bad friends made a world of difference.
I imagine it can make the second wedding a bit awkward.
At some point my then ex-wife (we've since reconciled) was google-stalking me and came across these entries. At some point they became outlandish enough that she contacted me to ask what was going on in my life. There was a very confused conversation where I had no idea what she was talking about and she was somewhat concerned about my health and safety. It wasn't until I talked to a relative and started googling myself with some specific terms that I came across the entries and was able to figure out what was happening. I emailed the individual running the project and asked to end the entries and if possible remove them from the internet to avoid further confusion.