2024/02/27

AI Zombie Content Floods Internet, Turning Platforms into Ghost Towns

● 27/02/2024
“The internet is filling up with ‘zombie content’ designed to game algorithms and scam humans. It’s becoming a place where bots talk to bots, and search engines crawl a lonely expanse of pages written by artificial intelligence.”
– Technology reporter James Purtill, on the accelerating degradation of the Web. Bot-overrun platforms like X were “never designed for a world where machines can talk with people convincingly,” says digital media scholar Timothy Graham of the deluge of AI-generated content. ”The platforms have no infrastructure in place. The gates are open.”
ABC News
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