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The Web has become completely unusable without uBlock Origin.


Sadly, uBlock Origin doesn't block my Kagi/Google search results which are 50% AI-generated spam.


Whenever I have to use someone else's computer, or stand up a new one myself, I am reminded of this reality.

If LLMs ruin the economic viability of corporate blogspam, that's a net positive for society in my eyes. One of the few net positives we can expect from the AI bubble, as far as I can tell.

Of course, the new problem is that we have a bunch of LLMs trained on corporate blogspam, producing low-quality information that only feels plausible because of its correct grammar and neutral voice.


> If LLMs ruin the economic viability of corporate blogspam

What would be the mechanism for that? If anything LLMs make SEO spam almost free to make.


By reducing click-through rate, as is the point of the article. If it isn't profitable, it doesn't matter if it's cheap to make.



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