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Jason Koebler Profile picture
@jason_koebler
Jan 18 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Google News is indexing and promoting websites that immediately rip off others with AI clones of their articles. These websites are absolutely littered with Google ads. Our website, in which real humans do journalism, is not indexed by Google News

404media.co/google-news-is…
Google's stated position on this is that it doesn't mind AI-gen content: “Our focus when ranking content is on the quality of the content, rather than how it was produced. Automatically-generated content produced primarily for ranking purposes is considered spam..."
Let's look at what Google considers "News":

Here is a site called "WorldTimeTodays," which is indexed by Google News. Its website is almost entirely ads. Lets check out its writers and articles... Image
Here's is "Gary B. Graves" Gary has "written" 40 articles in the last 24 hours. Many of the articles straight up steal identifiable images from other outlets. "Gary" rips off multiple times a day. Here's Gary on the left and Heavy on the right Heavy.com

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This AI farm published the cloned article within 5 minutes of posting their article. The article itself is obviously a direct rip, with very minor AI gen tweaks (AI on the left).

The AI altered direct quotes in the article, for example. Heavy.com



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Here they've ripped off a Distractify article about Star Wars YouTuber drama and write "let's be honest, War of Stars fans"

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This is just one "author" on one website. There are dozens of these. The site , which has decades of "Google Juice" built up because it was once a real news website (sorta), is AI generated clones of articles from @WatcherGuru now Examiner.com
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Nov 17, 2023
Last week, Garth Brooks released a new album exclusively as part of a 7-CD set at Bass Pro Shops. It has still not been pirated, the lyrics are not on lyrics websites, there is exactly one professional review of the album

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The CD currently has six ratings on Bass Pro Shops' website. I found four tweets from people who said they have the album. No posts on popular Garth FB page. The hosts of "Garthology" podcast reveal halfway through their episode about it that they had not been able to listen Image
Garth Brooks is the best-selling country music artist of all time. He is playing a concert this month at his dive bar that 2 million people registered for a lottery for. He says he plans to release FIVE MORE Chris Gaines albums. This and other facts included in my investigation
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Sep 21, 2023
white supremacists are hijacking city council meetings all over the US

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Local news has been picking this up when it happens and has been doing a good job. But they rarely talk about what these hijackings mean for other citizens, who want to talk about real problems, or are at least doing so in good faith.

Note: This is a tough listen--
In 2016, everyone spent time handwringing and saying "let's not amplify these people's messages." So you get hundreds of news stories and thousands of tweets where people say things like "right wing extremists said bad things at a meeting" but no one says what the bad things are
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Sep 18, 2023
Flew to Vegas Saturday to gamble in MGM's hacked casinos / America's interactive ransomware museum.

Evidence of the hack is everywhere. Roughly a third of all slot machines seem to be broken, sports book kiosks are down ...

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workers are still writing records of every transaction down with pen and paper.

Food court employees are physically walking to the single working register to take orders for eight different restaurants.

People are waiting 45 minutes to cash out from slot machines
The Aria's video billboard is software gore
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Aug 23, 2023
NEW: Instagram is full of ads for drugs, guns, stolen credit cards, counterfeit cash etc

A window into a blatantly illegal economy of drug dealers, hackers, and scammers that Meta is not only failing to moderate, but actively profiting from:

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The ads link to Telegram, which is where a lot of internet drug trade/crime trade has moved. So, tapping through friends' stories about vacation and you suddenly see an ad for a bunch of stolen credit cards. One tap and you're in the place to buy it


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These are NOT hard to find. I sent 13 of these accounts to Meta and it banned them; within a day, I was getting ads leading to the same thing. Some of them have tens of thousands of views. Meta seemingly has little ability to moderate or stop this. From the Ad Library Image
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Nov 18, 2022
Underappreciated aspect of Twitter exodus is this:

Elon just bought every employee's equity at inflated price of $54/share. He then asked if they want to work "extremely hardcore" or take their large pile of cash + 3 months of pay and leave the shitshow

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Like most tech companies, huge part of comp package is equity ... Elon just bought that equity. Most employees are probably sitting on more cash right now than they've ever had in their entire lives and are being asked to choose between disaster ego boss and enjoying their money
many employees basically just hit the lottery, and then, the worst boss you've ever had, who just gave you a giant pile of money, asks if you want to keep working for the same pay, except the job is now much worse and the hours are now much longer
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Nov 17, 2022
Here is ticket allocation chart for a 2009 Taylor Swift show in Nashville. This information is made public extremely rarely. In this case, 11,720 of the 13,330 tickets were sold during presales or otherwise held. Only 15% made available during public sale

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Presales are *supposed* to help fans, in theory. They give fans more chances to buy tickets if they're busy during the public sale. They also give scalpers more chances to buy tickets. Scalpers buy tickets during *every* presale.
- Scalpers join fan clubs
- Scalpers have every type of credit card
- Scalpers pay for forums and newsletters that distribute
presale passwords to people who pay for a subscription
- Scalpers pay for a browser ($500 a month) that makes getting through waiting rooms much easier
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