goldteeth

For heaven's sake, this is plain white text. Are we, as a people, so far gone that we cannot even take the extra step to add the plain white text with 10px drop shadow to the image after it's generated? Surely a human must be involved at some point of this process - even if only to collect the ill-gotten gains - that can identify whether or not their nefarious trap is baited with brazen gibberish. Surely.

kinda disappointed it's not a strandbeest with one of those litter-picker-upper sticks taped to the front

If this were Peru I'd say there's a good chance that's actually just his car

Man, fuck this horseshit.

This is a Bat-Terry!

So that in 20 years you don't get a sudden epidemic of disaffected young Gojiras and Katamaris decking their parents with a shovel?

Tell you what, I betcha my cousin Aniken^(sic)^ Skywalker Goldteeth woulda really appreciated having something like that over here back in '04.

It used to be serious. It still is, but it used to be, too.

Man, that "was" really got my hopes up for a minute.

Search Engine Optimization. Basically gaming search engine indexing algorithms so that your content appears more "relevant" (read: crammed full of as many keywords as possible) and thus higher up on search results, usually at the expense of having, you know, actual content worth reading.

I use uBlacklist with this filter and that generally keeps the repeat offenders at least out of image search, but clearing out every SEO-spam print-on-demand mimc-site was already a game of whack-a-mole before consumer LLMs became a thing; I imagine now it'd be like playing whack-a-mole with a hydra. Still, it does at least help.

Alright, so you probably can't get rid of it, but you can make it look like it's defective. Make it look like it's sending way too many false positives. Find somewhere where you can get away with making obvious mistakes and then make like fifty of them in a row. "Why would I, an intelligent human being, just sit in the middle of an empty street doing donuts in an 18-wheeler for 10 straight minutes? I have a job to do," you say. If you got one of those "constantly monitoring everything you say" things Amazon tried rolling out, just start spouting random gibberish. Some pencil-pusher at HQ sees a transcript come back that just says "reptile shoestring meridian front sawdust henway ball Amtrak septuagint ladder correct horse battery staple java thorpe 2 Chainz" over and over for like 40 pages, worst-case scenario he's not gonna read it, best-case scenario he's gonna think the company's paying way too much for shit that don't work.

The sewage was no doubt very upset to see its creek being contaminated by RFK Jr.