[creatonez]

Can you give an example of any significant scale of fully automatically published blog posts from 10 years ago? As far as I know, most of these crappy articles were content farms, often using templates and outsourced labor, but not automatically generated content.

[riffraff]

There's a vast amount of automatically translated websites, which IMO fall into this category.

Some product comparison websites also seem to be built based on automatic sentence generation from tables with specs.

It's not the same as buzzfeed style content farming but it was a sign of the things to come.

[hutzlibu]

"Can you give an example of any significant scale of fully automatically published blog posts from 10 years ago?"

For some reasons I never bookmarked those sites, when I left them in a rage and disgusted about so much information garbage. So it definitely has become way worse, but also 10 years ago I remember that pattern. Most often when looking for alternatives of software, then you were always a click away of being on a nonsense site, automatically filled with all the relevant keywords and lots of things to accidently click on, but nothing useful. Some of it might have been manual edited, but for the most part, I could allmost see the algorithms that filled those sites up with "content". There were just really primitive - so things will get interesting when this will gets combined with LLMs big scale.

[jddj]

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