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Re:The plan is to flood Google search with AI garbage by WirelessGigabit on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:13PM (#36774844)
Why would they? Google sees more content so you now have more nodes connected to you, so you appear higher. Whether it's true or false doesn't matter to Google.
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Re:The plan is to flood Google search with AI garbage by anyonecancode on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:44PM (#36776481)
This seems similar to, maybe even a restatement of, the "how do you detect AI-written content" problem.

If someone could provide a way to programmatically detect accurate, high quality content, it would solve the SEO spam problem. It would also as a side-effect solve the AI-content problem. Or maybe it's the other way around and it would solve the AI-content problem and as a side effect the SEO spam problem. Well, they'll soon be the exact same thing, and either way I'm not sure it's solvable.

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Re:The plan is to flood Google search with AI garbage by unilynx on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @05:10PM (#36779142)
The detection needs to be almost perfect for it not to be worth it for the AI to simply retry until it's passed the detection.
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