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Summary: The World Wide Web is being filled with bots, not just those scanning its contents but those that generate the contents

THE technical nature of the Web is getting worse. In addition to security and vendor lock-in aspects we're getting DRM. But what about the content of the Web? Is that getting any better? Or a whole lot worse?

This morning we were moaning about sites that create nothing and basically publish Computer-Generated (CG) nonsense, a word salad and some "art" that's plagiarised with slight derivations. At the moment that does not constitute the majority of the Web, but that can do sufficient damage to discourage journalism, especially if Google cannot distinguish between real articles and fake ones, in turn rewarding the CG plagiarism. ⬆