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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

lmao, nobody cares when it’s big companies silently manipulating the results like this, but once regular people become enraged enough to poison the data, now it’s something to talk about and totally represents how dystopian everything has gotten!

And while this is far from being a dangerous attempt to manipulate search results or AI algorithms, it does highlight the pitfalls of Google results becoming dependent on content generated by users who could very easily have intentions other than providing helpful information

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www.theregister.com/2009/04/…/time_top_100_hack/

Time Magazine’s poll of the 100 most influential people has been hacked by a motley band of online troublemakers who have managed to manipulate the top 21 names so their first letters spell “marblecake, also the game.”

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