• barsquid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Then: people on the internet were mostly technically adept and creating webpages because they enjoyed them.

    Now: people on the internet are mostly ad tech attention economy scams and creating LLM spam blogs for PPC revenue.

    It’s just easier now for a conspiracy loon to find something that matches their preconceived biases.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      It really sucks now for product comparisons. It used to be the you could look up productA vs productB and get an enthusiast going on about them, now it’s purely AI generated crap.