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Feb 19

Tech Journalists: Masters of the Hot Dog

Chatbots are poised to usher in a new era of search engine spam, a phenomenon recently demonstrated by a BBC journalist whose fabricated blog post abo

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Chatbots are poised to usher in a new era of search engine spam, a phenomenon recently demonstrated by a BBC journalist whose fabricated blog post about his (fictional) hot dog eating achievements was subsequently integrated into AI-generated search results.

While search engine optimization (SEO) spam is a long-standing challenge, the confident and authoritative attribution by AI models, exemplified by Gemini, to such fabricated "reporting" compounds the issue, fundamentally undermining trust in the accuracy of AI-powered information retrieval.

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