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They want your ethics for $105

Monday, October 28, 2024 If you have a blog, you've probably gotten those emails that want to "collaborate" on a guest post—which often means "let us post sketchy links for SEO purposes." Recently, I got one which was a little different flavor than the usual spam, so I bit and replies. The end result was at the same time fascinating, unsurprising, and deeply disappointing.

If you have a blog, you've probably gotten those emails that want to "collaborate" on a guest post—which often means "let us post sketchy links for SEO purposes." Spoiler alert: these folks have bad ethics and want to pay a paltry sum for illegal unethical behavior. I'm not going to post them here but there are some of the standard image generation artifacts: someone's ear is missing a piece under her earring; a couple people have double sets of teeth; there's a weird thing going on with the CEO's neck; another has the classic weird psychedelic image model stuff in the corner; and yet another has an earring straight out of a computerized nightmare.

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