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AI-generated news sites serve ads without oversight

AI-generated news sites serve ads without oversight

AI-generated news sites exploit ads from major brands, raising concerns about oversight and Google's role in promoting spammy content online.

The article discusses the issue of AI-generated news sites serving ads from major brands, with Google being responsible for 90% of these ads. This practice goes against Google’s own policies, which prohibit ads on pages with spammy automatically generated content. The article highlights the potential consequences of this practice, including a glitchy and spammy internet overrun by AI-generated content. It also mentions that programmatic advertising leads to big brands paying for ad placements on unfamiliar websites with little human oversight.

Original article: Junk Websites Filled with AI-Generated Text are Pulling In Money from Programmatic Ads

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