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Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] mii@awful.systems 49 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I stand by my opinion that SEO basically ruined the internet. First keyword optimization made me scroll through seventeen paragraphs of someone's life story before getting to a recipe for boiled eggs, and now this.

Why would someone go to the trouble of making a law firm out of NameCheap, stock art, and AI images (and seemingly copy) to send quasi-legal demands to site owners? Backlinks, that's why.

Oof, back in the day all we had to do was write a nice email to get someone to put a backlink to our page into the sidebar of their Geocities page.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

i remember back in the day they had white on white tiny keywords on the bottom of pages. it was ridiculous. then google started to check if the text was visible 🤣

the shenanigans will never end unless you have actual faithful people curating it and google absolutely won't have it.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Reject search engines, return to webrings/directories

[–] AcausalRobotGod@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago

remember when sites used to get slashdotted

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