Al is filling up the internet with garbage spam sites

Hundreds of sites serving up real ads over Al-generated text are causing headaches for users and advertisers alike.

- MICHAEL CRIDER

A new wave of artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT (fave.co/3wnujwM) and Google Bard (fave.co/3zSZ1cq) may or may not change the way humans interact with technology forever. But before that happens, that wave is going to make the internet even more annoying. According to a new report, Al is being used to generate a huge amount of websites filled with random, garbage strings of text targeted at search engines, then plastered with advertising to generate revenue.

NewsGuard reports (fave.co/44kTDMF) that Al text generation tools are being combined with software that autogenerates new sites, creating masses of domains filled with a huge amount of text. The sites are then filled with programmatic advertising slots (