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The best hot dog eating tech journalists.

Chatbots could bring back the golden age of search spam, as one BBC journalist found after publishing a blog post about his (fake) hot dog eating exploits, which fed right into AI answers. SEO spam is nothing new, but Gemini’s confident attribution to hot dog “reporting” makes things a whole lot worse.

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