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anigbrowl 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: You can't trust the internet anymore

I'm gonna guess that it's just popular enough that being in the top 5 results on search engines yields a small net gain in ad revenue. It's possible the decision to generate the fake article was itself made by a machine.

Great piece btw

hcs 3 months ago [–]

Seems much more likely it's just going through a list of all games, collated from databases that humans have painstakingly curated.

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