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...Conspiracy theories are not the only spammy use cases emerging from the AI boom....
...“It is all spammy products that have nothing to do with my audience,” she said. “I would feel like I’d be selling myself if I was selling them,” she said....
...sources, such as Google search volume for “how to make money on OnlyFans”: A lack of hard data on the value of AI-assisted hustling means the research is sometimes difficult to tell apart from all those spammy...
...What I do know is that Amazon, once famous for providing an amazing internet shopping experience, now boasts a website groaning with spammy ads....
...At the moment, a company like OpenAI or Anthropic isn’t legally liable if someone spreads spammy messages using their chatbot, or even worse, if someone makes mustard gas with it....
...Twitter removed a network of 936 core accounts, plus 200,000 “spammy” accounts that boosted that content....
...Mr Dorsey, co-founder and CEO, said the site was taking serious efforts to weed out fake, abusive, and “spammy” accounts. Twitter shares fell nearly a fifth....
...Its systems identified more than 9.9m “potentially spammy or automated” accounts a week in May, up from 6.4m in December and 3.2m in September....
...After a rush of spammy emails from anyone and everyone you ever gave your email to asking you to opt in to their mailing lists, things have gone quiet. But they have not necessarily got any better....
...To the contrary, all we end up with is a need to cultivate faster and faster systems, because –in the style of an arms race — whatever fresh capacity is freed up is immediately exploited in increasingly spammy...
...Advertisers want attention-grabbing content that spreads across social media, while influencers must stay “authentic” and learn “how not to become spammy and annoying”, Mr López says....
...I’ve turned down a good amount of work because I thought anything I did with this brand would be super spammy,” he says....
...“They are very difficult environments and it is difficult to put adverts there without it seeming very spammy....
...“Weibo has become way too spammy,” said one internet entrepreneur who asked not to be named....
...Showing retargeted ads without this type of social context risks making the social network feel increasingly “spammy”, said Richard Greenfield, an analyst at BTIG Research....
...“So we had wanted to get into their heads in a playful, non-spammy way.”...
...It had reduced the percentage of tweets that were spammy from a peak of almost 11 per cent in summer 2009 to less than 1 per cent in February 2010, it said. Everyone was very pleased....
...We hear the feedback from the web loud and clear: people are asking for even stronger action on content farms and sites that consist primarily of spammy or low-quality content....
...All year, phishing scams have hit social sites, prompting companies such as Facebook to get more proactive about discouraging spammy behaviour. The FBI has advice for keeping out the bad guys....
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