#bottom-feeders

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The economics of AI spam and what it means for post-AI bubble spammers

A persistent current in the people who believe that AI could be profitable from low-risk activities is the belief that people don't care about extremely low-value AI-generated spam, and that this spam generates a lot of money.

These are both totally incorrect. The point of AI generated spam is to get clicks people who are looking for better content. It's SEO. No one reads 2000 words of algorithm-pleasiing LLM garbage over an omelette recipe and then subscribes to that site's feed.

And the omelette recipe generates pennies for the spammer that posted it. They are doing massive volume in order to make those pennies into dollars. You don't make money by posting one spam. If every spammer had to pay the actual recovery costs (energy, chillers, capital amortization, wages) for their query, every AI-generated spam would lose (lots of) money.

[freshwaterfishfactswithfin]

White Sucker

I know I've been absent a while. (And I'll probs be gone a lot of the time in November.) So, I'm kinda sorry. Therefore, you get a funny fish today? (This week?)

Now, you probs alr are able to identify what a "sucker" is in terms of fish. It's a fish with those lips that stick out. (We call those papillose lips, which means lips that protrude from the body.) And, they eat aufwuchs. (That's the organic matter that builds up at the bottom of bodies of water. It particularly refers to plants and animals that grow on the organic matter that gathers tho.)

Now, maybe, you heard the "white" part, and you were like "Oh, so it's white." Well, it isn't. Usually, they're grey, dark green, or black though they do have a white underbelly.

Now! The really interesting bit! These fish are suuuuuper tolerant and adaptable. Now, mabes you heard that and were like "oh, so, like, it can go a bit without a meal?" Nope! This thing can live in areas that are so clouded that they can't see. This thing could live in the Ohio river when it still caught fire regularly. This thing only has "low breeding success" in environments so acidic acid rain with ph of vinegar.

Anyway, in fishing, they're typically sold for minnows, but that's really about it. They're processed with mullet for food, but people don't really typically eat them with the intention of eating a white sucker.