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Media: Content farms are using AI-generated text to sell eyeballs to advertisers

Media: Content farms are using AI-generated text to sell eyeballs to advertisers

“Content mills” and “Content Generation” services are becoming the backbone of web “journalism”. 57% of newsroom jobs at newspapers went away from 2008 onwards. What does those people do now? They write stories about that one weird trick that explains why this airport did something to someone… in other words, fluffy filler click-bait articles.

When newspapers provide free advertising for their own reporting staff

When newspapers provide free advertising for their own reporting staff

The Oregonian runs a top of the page web site “report” about an author – who happens to have previously worked for the paper – coming to a local bookstore to discuss her new book. There is no new “news” in this report – it is a prominent free ad for the author and her new book. Literally, a free ad for someone that once worked for the paper.