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@mike_k@mstdn.social I've posted on this in recent weeks when Guardian or ABC ran an earlier article on this, saying i don't understand... & i still do not understand. Both articles explicitly state that this bullshit applies when idiots um users of search engines, do searches whilst logged into said se. What kind of moron logs into a s/e? 😮🙄🤦‍♀️ Ergo, afaict, anyone with more than half a dozen functioning neurons needs to simply... do what i expect they're already doing, & keep searching for their whatevs... not logged into a se. MSM & commentators have been losing their minds about this, but iirc nobody seems to be making the same simple observation as me... why? 🤔🤷

#AusPol #SearchEngines #AgeVerification #beatup #hysterical #MSM #clickbait

If you #link to an article or post on another site, be it a news site, a different social media platform, blog, or website...

Please, please, please include more than just the #clickbait If it's behind a pay wall, then say so, and summarise it.

A man installed app ABC123, you'll never guess what happened next... https // foo.bar / bop

A man installed app ABC123, his data was wiped and stolen... https // foo.bar / bop

1) will make me go 'meh' and go elsewhere,
2) I might actually click on.

Decided to sit a spell. Launch YouTube on the TV. The 2nd top line recomendation (that, let's face it, are nearly always garbage) was an obviously AI graphic:

• Caption: Chaos in Oklahoma City! Streets Turn Into River After Crazy Rain
• With 115k views
• a state capital in the background
• in the foreground 6-8 feet of flowing, muddy water
• cars floating,
• a building with people standing on the roof and water nearly to the bottom of the roof
• and, of course, held high on a flagpole an American flag

People who click on this garbage ensure that we get more ridiculous AI slop posing as news. They're helping to build an even crappier future for everyone by clicking on stupid clickbait. #YouTube #Clickbait

"More than 12,000 Bottles of a Duloxetine Have Been Recalled Nationwide"

There. I fixed it for you. The original was:

"More than 12,000 Bottles of a Popular Antidepressant Have Been Recalled Nationwide"

This news source is now banned from my news feed. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Here is the FDA data:

accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/ire

www.accessdata.fda.govEnforcement Report
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@jackofalltrades Yet another reason #Friendica is the best way to consume the #Fediverse. You get the first few words of the text on the other side of links, and for links to #YouTube, more often than not, that includes a sponsor plug. Perfect #clickbait antidote...

As for the question of whether "A" "I" slop will kill the Internet, in my humble opinion, it's already been ruined by "I" "P", but that's just my opinion.

(AFP Faktencheck) Clickbait mit gefälschten Artikeln über “Boykott des Pride Month” durch Prominente

Clickbait-Websites verbreiten immer wieder gezielt Falschbehauptungen über Prominente, um Werbeeinnahmen zu erzielen. AFP deckte eine neue Kampagne auf, bei der Websites bekannten Persönlichkeiten wie der serbische Tennisstar Novak Djokovic fälschlich Aussagen gegen den Pride Month zuschreiben – teilweise exakt gleichlautend. Die Seiten nennen keine offiziellen Quellen, enthalten sachliche Fehler und weisen Merkmale schlecht KI-generierter Inhalte auf. Für die zitierten Aussagen gibt es keine Belege. Das Management von Djokovic dementierte die Behauptung.

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