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Ask HN: What Is the Purpose of Publishing a Nonsense CG Article?

2 pointsby soupysoupysoupalmost 3 years ago
A &quot;recent news&quot; article referencing the defunct &quot;Sports Authority&quot; caught my attention today. The entire text appears to be computer generated nonsense. Is there a business case for publishing this?<p>Article for reference: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@f3eulca622&#x2F;15-reasons-why-you-shouldnt-ignore-baltimore-ravens-super-bowl-apparel-at-sports-authority-cheap-2b1a1166dc60

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indoorskieralmost 3 years ago
As others have said, this is all for SEO - quick &quot;content marketing&quot;. With the advance of AI this is only going to get worse. There&#x27;s a whole cottage industry of companies that generate posts and even entire youtube videos given a few keywords or a paragraph of text. They will probably be the only real winners from this.
jamil7almost 3 years ago
Welcome to modern &quot;content marketing&quot;. It&#x27;s just the latest way to game SEO, pump out semi-automated or completely automated &quot;content&quot; and backlink to your site.
liberiaalmost 3 years ago
There are private tools people use to do content marketing <i>en masse</i>. This has been going on for some time. Yet the best content is handmade and doesn’t use automated tools.
MattGaiseralmost 3 years ago
I am guessing that it is mostly SEO spam? to get people to go to the jersey websites?