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GOOGLE MADE ME RUIN A PERFECTLY GOOD WEBSITE: A CASE STUDY ON THE AI-GENERATED INTERNET

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To monetize their website, this author reluctantly added low-quality content to their site to appeal to Google's AdSense approval process. They used AI-generated recipes, poetry, riddles, and a fictional blog to have more content on their site to get through the process successfully. Ironically, despite the site's original high quality, this absurdly bad content allowed them to gain Google's approval to display ads.