The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google.

I love a good, informative troll.

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      Nilay Patel - the editor in chief is anti-AI especially when it comes to article content. He doesn’t allow anyone at the company to use generated content except when they are writing an article about AI and even then only to demonstrate a point - e.g. “here’s a comparison of two LLMs with the same prompt”. It was also his decision to stop AI’s from crawling any content on their website.

      He used AI to pad the article because that’s what real spam articles do. It had nothing to do with acceptance.

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        He used AI to pad the article because that’s what real spam articles do. It had nothing to do with acceptance.

        That was a stated goal, yes, but if that sort of tactic is done again and again, at some point, people will push back less against AI in reviews. Toad in a slow boiling pot sort of thing.

        Again, tongue-in-cheek. Don’t overanalyze it, no need to defend, I’m just stating that was a possibility in the back of my mind, but not most likely what’s really going on.

        Relax, everything is fine. It’s just conversation.

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