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AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet


We're starting to see one prediction come true of how artificial intelligence will affect the internet: AI-generated spam is flooding the web.

One, called SpinRewriter, lets users create 1,000 slightly different versions of the same article with a single click and to automatically publish them to as many WordPress sites as you want using a paid plugin. These AI-generated versions of articles hurt the news business, effectively stealing away clicks (and revenue) from the outlets that spent real time and money doing the reporting. But they have one thing in common: Bad actors, scammers, and spammers are trying to make money by using AI to pump out massive quantities of content to reach the top of Google search results.

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