So it’s like SEO then. It’s always been a scammers game. Blast sites with bot comments about your site, write slop articles that merge things that have nothing to do with what they are named for the sake of SEO, add tags, and specific words through the page. This is just an extension of the scum.
SEO started the day after the first search engine, with sysops begging other sysops to list their boards on the front page of links. It has evolved massively since then, but manipulation of AI results is just another form of SEO, and the AI results we have today are already heavily influenced by the SEOed content they were trained on and that they RAG from.
404 media has an interesting podcast episode on “AEO” (AI SEO) and how it can be manipulated. Apple link
So it’s like SEO then. It’s always been a scammers game. Blast sites with bot comments about your site, write slop articles that merge things that have nothing to do with what they are named for the sake of SEO, add tags, and specific words through the page. This is just an extension of the scum.
SEO started the day after the first search engine, with sysops begging other sysops to list their boards on the front page of links. It has evolved massively since then, but manipulation of AI results is just another form of SEO, and the AI results we have today are already heavily influenced by the SEOed content they were trained on and that they RAG from.