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Guney Ozsan • Edited

This is the main reason I stopped following AI suggested Medium or Dev.to links. Unfortunately such articles have extremely confident titles that drive huge click-bait traffic and get plenty of comments that try to correct the contents. This make them climb top of the suggestion engine's rankings.

What's worse on Medium is I saw development related publications with huge following welcome those false articles just for the traffic they generate to their publication. So even curated content makes use of them for really bad consequences hard to recover all around the world.

Even worser on Medium is I came across a good amount of paid content on top ranks that you cannot write a comment for correction without paying. I've seen people's comments that bought a Medium subscription just to be able to warn other users. Medium's comments are already burried behind a terrible UI and being behind a pay wall on top of it is really dangerous.

Even worsererer is the authors with false confidence get paid with such content, which rewards an already dangerous act.

Thanks for pointing out such an important problem.