Comment by johnnyanmac

>Bizarre as it may seem, some people actually send real money to these "creators"

It's also just plain ol' ad revenue as well. Not such thing as bad engagement.

>And then there are opportunities to sell "guest posts" to other spam merchants who want to get their content in front of gullible eyeballs.

Yeah, that too. get ad revenue, then become the ad yourself.

and... the article ends. Well that was a lot more fluff than I anticipated. Yes, not much will change until the people themsevles start rejecting this content en masse. But there will be people falling for it. There are still people falling for old school email spam, so it's sadly not shocking AI works for the non-discerning viewer.