The “long tail” you mention reminds me of the “dead internet” conspiracy theory.
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.
I see these a lot, often seeded with exact copies of posts from reddit, stackoverflow, or github issues. I have not seen one that (to my knowledge) was seeded with fake content, but you absolutely could make them.
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...
Re:Markov Chat Bot Disaster Story
by popotamonga on Friday July 08, 2022 @07:29AM
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I run one, with ads for betting sites (which give you lifetime earnings for a % of what the person bets). Runs on autopilot basically, generating 80k/yr and growing by 20k every year. Google never penalized me.
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.