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> until AI and the bots ruined it all

Well... advertising as a business model ruined it all. They get paid for getting page views, so the business model optimizes for maximum page views at minimum cost of creation. This is the end result of what Google and Facebook have spent the last 20 years building.

But I'm sure the engineers who built all this have very nice yachts, so it's all fine.




This is the root cause. "AI and Bots" are just two of the many symptoms




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