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Aside from a few skids spamming for fun, the dominant forms of online spam by far are (1) content mills farming impressions for AdSense $$$; (2) user-generated content on third party platforms pushing something for economic or, to a lesser extent, political gain, whether it's SEO backlinks, fake product reviews, crypto shilling, or whatever.

(1) getting better is bad because you can enter the two words into Bing Chat or whatever to generate the same shit yourself, so you won't need them anyway, they only get in the way when you want to look for actual human-generated/curated content.

(2) getting better is obviously bad. Imagine most user-generated content turning into Quora-style ads or Amazon fake reviews, except with eloquence and bullshit knobs turned to 120%. Everything you read is coherent, convincing prose, you just don't know whether they're 100% false.



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