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[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 112 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

While we're at it, can be ban AI generated product reviews and comparisons? That would be rad.

[–] IHawkMike@lemmy.world 98 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

First sentence, emphasis mine:

The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday voted unanimously to ban marketers from using fake reviews, such as those generated with AI technology, and other misleading practices to promote their products and services.

Just being cheeky though. I don't always read the articles either. But Lina Kahn has been on fire lately.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 10 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I read the article, but I more took it as line item reviews from the likes of Amazon, Yelp, Google, etc. It didn't seem like they were targeting product writeups and comparisons from unaffiliated third party websites.

[–] IHawkMike@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah I get what you mean now. The SEO spamming AI garbage sites predate LLMs and are one of the worst things about the modern web. It's a legitimately necessary skill to identify and filter them out. I actually think they probably contributed to some of reddit's recent rise since everyone started adding "reddit" to their queries just to bypass that garbage.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 points 4 weeks ago

Exactly. It used to be easy enough to spot that spam, but it's like damn near anything involving a given product is sponsored content/AI-generated junk and it's a royal pain sifting through them to do legit research before plunking down a decent chunk of money on something.

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