Are AI companies trying to poison the search index?

Like Boris Johnson did when he had fun times with a model on the campaign bus, then did a bizarre interview when he claimed he made model buses!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/26/mesmerising...

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hamdingers 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Or Disney releasing a movie called "Frozen" so that web searches for "Disney Frozen" stopped returning macabre rumors about Walt Disney's possible posthumous cryogenic preservation.

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Isamu an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Ah, so that’s why they released one of their most successful blockbusters, it was all an elaborate plot to bury the well known and long debunked story of the frozen Walt Disney.

	▲	simlevesque 41 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The claim is that it's why the movie has that name, not why they made the movie.
	▲	dylan604 an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		There are many many much more crazier ideas floating around. This one, even if made up, is funny and not harmful to anything. I'll allow it.
	▲	hamdingers an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Well it wouldn't have been as effective as a box office bomb.
	▲	ProllyInfamous an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Wait until you learn about the namesake for "Dubai chocolate" [NSFW]

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kanemcgrath 8 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Or Eldin ring naming your horse "Torrent" so that searches for "Eldin Ring Torrent" would bring up your horse instead of pirate downloads

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esperent 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Damn, did news articles ~7 years ago really just consist of a series of embedded tweets?

It feels familiar but also kind of jarring.

	▲	Henchman21 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, and I recall at the time being exasperated by it -- "Twitter is NOT NEWS it is children yelling across the playground at each other!"

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actionfromafar an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I remember telling people about it back then and it sounded crazy even to me. Yet..