#content mill

[kitsunestudios]

YouTube Shorts has recommended this channel to me, and I'm utterly torn on whether I should share it.

On the one hand, it is 100% AI generated content slop supposedly about "Home Design" that goes all in on the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" grindset. And fuck that shit.

On the other hand, the slop seems to have boiled over into hilariously dada art pieces, of how you can turn less than 2 square meters into a livable space for your wife's accidental one billion children with only a handful of screws borrowed from a relative, eco friendly wood veneer, and the Secret Buddha Hidden Palm technique.

[lovesongofjrrtolkien]

Literally 2 Cents: Ghost writing the cliff hanger ending to the private cloud

(I can’t take credit for that title; Alex is a genius.) We talked about self-publishing, online blogging, and, of course, the obscure posting technology used by the content mill. Check out the latest episode of Literally 2 Cents on every podcast platform (except for Google Podcasts)! Ghost writing the cliffhanger ending to the private cloud – Literally 2 Cents About Content! Alex and Liz…

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[uniquephilosopherwombat]

BuzzFeed Is Quietly Publishing Whole AI-Generated Articles, Not Just Quizzes

After announcing earlier this year a pivot to quizzes co-written by AI, BuzzFeed seems to have widened its purview to include articles.

[lovesongofjrrtolkien]

Literally 2 Cents!: Managerial "Coping" Strategies

A very real thing: Sometimes, managers play Starcraft while you're writing 4,000 words per day. @eARCwelder #Literally2Cents #podcast

This week, we took a deeper look at the kinds of strategies the managers of the content mill used to cope with the fact that they were the middle man between overworked, underpaid employees and clients who, in all seriousness, were probably sold a bill of goods about the content they would be getting from the company. A quick disclaimer: I promise we will not spend the entirety of this podcast…

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[lovesongofjrrtolkien]

Literally Two Cents! Episode 3: The Golden Rule of Content

While I'm spending the week in the woods: Turns out there is one thing you can't write about at the content mill. Well, we broke the rule. #content #writing #podcast #TwoCents @eARCwelder

This episode was extremely fun to record (in case you didn’t notice: I was laughing the entire time) and even more fun to chat with Alex about before and after. Turns out that the golden rule of writing for a content mill doesn’t have anything to do with “treating others the way you’d want to be treated…” The Knife Alien File: A Content Bonanza – This Too Too Solid Flesh Listen now (55 min) |…

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[devonellington]

Thurs. Sept. 3, 2020: Die for Tourist Dollars Day 106 -- Grumpy Start

Thurs. Sept. 3, 2020: Die for Tourist Dollars Day 106 — Grumpy Start

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Thursday, September 3, 2020

Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus Retrograde

Foggy and humid

I HATE this new forced WordPress Block editing SOOOOO DAMN MUCH!!!!! I hate it, hate it, hate it.

I guess I’ll have to look into other blogging platforms. At least the websites offer the option to get back into the classic HTML editing.

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[mikesfilmtalk]

Freelance Writers: Beware the Scammers (The GLV Experience)

Freelance Writers: Beware the Scammers (The GLV Experience)

There are a number of websites that advertise for “Freelance Writers.” Of course many do not come out and call these aspiring writer’s freelance. Some, like the site I stumbled across almost two years ago, just asked for writers who wanted to be paid for their efforts. Like any rube at the county fair I was suckered in, and it took me a long time to realize that the promises made were never…

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[space-pikachu]

nativeamericannews/nativeamericanencyclopedia is a content mill.

The nativeamericannews tumblr is a bot that pulls articles from various news sites every couple of hours. Every day or so, it pulls random pages from nativeamericanencyclopedia.com.

The tumblr is actually the "news section" of nativeamericanencyclopedia, which is full of a lot of misinformation. It contains completely made up ideas like the "Native American Zodiac," encourages people to get appropriative tattoos, and posts pictures of Iroquois False Faces on a ripped off article clearly stating that they are not supposed to be publicly shown. These are just the things I have seen on a cursory glance through the pages; I'm sure there are plenty more issues.

Nativeamericanencyclopedia claims it is Native owned and operated and is a freely editable wiki (nativeamericanencyclopedia.com/native-american-encyclopedia/). You cannot actually edit the pages. They are pulled verbatim from other sources such as Wikipedia, native-languages.org, firstpeople.us, newhealthguide.org, and crystal-cure.com.

They also own nativeamericancareers.com and nativeamericanevents.com, which are also content mills. The careers site has a bunch of generic career articles ripped off of other sites and a small listing of casino jobs.

It seems feministwerewolf realized that it was a content mill a few months ago and found the name of the guy who owns the site.

Let's stop supporting it.