badposting
badposting is a comm where you post badly
This is not a !the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net alternative. This is not a !memes@hexbear.net alternative. This is a place for you to post your bad posts.
Ever had a really shitty bit idea? Joke you want to take way past the point of where it was funny? Want to feel like a stand-up comedy guy who's been bombing a set for the past 30 minutes straight and at this point is just saying shit to see if people react to it? Really bad pun? A homemade cringe concoction? A cognitohazard that you have birthed into this world and have an urge to spread like chain mail?
Rules:
- Do not post good posts.
- Unauthorized goodposting is to be punished in the manner of commenting the phrase "GOOD post" followed by an emoji that has not yet been used in the thread
- Use an emoticon/kaomoji/rule-three-abiding ASCII art if the rations run out
- This is not a comm where you direct people to other people's bad posts. This is a comm where you post badly.
- This rule intentionally left blank.
- If you're struck for rule 3, skill issue, not allowed to complain about it.
Code of Conduct applies just as much here as it does everywhere else. Technically, CoC violations are bad posts. On the other hand: L + ratio + get ~~better~~ worse material bozo
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News websites were the first to do this even before AI tbh. All of them would copy paste the same article right down to the headline. Then top ten websites would do it.
Now it's every search result...
Most news organizations (this applies to traditional papers as well as sites) are just local outlets that buy most of their articles wholesale from news wire services and maybe have someone to reword it a little or maybe not and then slap on a stock photo. They might have one local journalist, maybe even a photographer to write some articles based on local police reports, gov disclosures and whatever is pitched to them by PR from local companies and promoters.
Everyone forgets this but originally "fake news" referred to news websites that were basically fake versions of these local news sites made for towns that didn't have a newspaper or towns that didn't exist at all. These existed to either get clicks for ad revenue or to push completely fabricated stories for propaganda (almost always of the far right kind). Publishing on sites made to look like a small town newspaper website gave click bait articles a veneer of legitimacy relying on people to only read the headline on social media then click on the article to see if it looked vaguely legit before sharing it on. These sites would steal from other news sites or use earlier procedural generation (from before people would call this AI even though it's nothing different or new) to create the filler fake content to prop up the illusion. Ofc then Trump with the aid of the entire media successfully managed to redefine the term fakenews to just mean any partisan news you don't like.
Listicle sites were basically the same thing. Initially review sites who then squeezed employees leading to writing lower and lower effort reviews based on little to no testing eventually becoming little more than reworded versions of the official product descriptions. Top ten lists could be easily monetized with affiliate links and get high search ranking since consumers were often just wanting someone to tell them what to buy. Automating these lists has been simple for a long time and since there is no real reviews around any more the average person will have a hard time figuring out if they are bullshit. The only way to slap on a veneer of legitimacy to these lists without actually doing the work of testing and writing real reviews is to attach them to a media brand with some reputation which led to the purchasing of legacy magazines to turn them into zombie listicle sites and eventually even major sites like NYT etc started making their own product listicle divisions.
It's very cool I love it.