I can not prove it but i think that already since a long time that most articles are copy + pasted and some kind of summary. Which might have happend automatically.
Like someonr might write a real article on anything and then hundreds of sites copied it, without adding anything
Unfortunately, there’s another side of this coin. The “original” content sources value freshness to grab attention and hyperbole to generate interest. The end result is Drudge Report / Brietbart / Alex Jones / Joe Rogan journalism that mills out innuendo, conspiracy theory, and quack medicine as Breaking News. And that becomes the “original journalism” all the other copypasta outlets reproduce ad nauseum.
Yeah I get the main theory you’re going with and it’s been rampant without AI bullshit. When sites became traffic driven to an extreme they started trying to grab whatever was the most rage enduring, verified or not. I forget the exact example but there was a guy that back traced a rage bait article and it was like 10 articles deep, and at the bottom it was a misquoted tweet that was complete misinformation.
I can not prove it but i think that already since a long time that most articles are copy + pasted and some kind of summary. Which might have happend automatically. Like someonr might write a real article on anything and then hundreds of sites copied it, without adding anything
The Huffington Post Effect.
Unfortunately, there’s another side of this coin. The “original” content sources value freshness to grab attention and hyperbole to generate interest. The end result is Drudge Report / Brietbart / Alex Jones / Joe Rogan journalism that mills out innuendo, conspiracy theory, and quack medicine as Breaking News. And that becomes the “original journalism” all the other copypasta outlets reproduce ad nauseum.
Yeah I get the main theory you’re going with and it’s been rampant without AI bullshit. When sites became traffic driven to an extreme they started trying to grab whatever was the most rage enduring, verified or not. I forget the exact example but there was a guy that back traced a rage bait article and it was like 10 articles deep, and at the bottom it was a misquoted tweet that was complete misinformation.