I’ve noticed that on many articles now. By the time I get to the actual article I’ve read the headline and the opening paragraph at least three times. I don’t know why but it bothers me.
I think the idea is to pad out the content on the page so you have more ‘reasonable’ landscape to display ads. Like if you have ad breaks between every paragraph, more paragraphs = more ads.
I’m not sure if that is just old fashioned lazy writing, or the even more lazy option of having AI generate the entire thing and not even bothering with proofreading it before publishing
The first six paragraphs (plus the headline) of this “news article” are the same thing with slightly different wording…
I’ve noticed that on many articles now. By the time I get to the actual article I’ve read the headline and the opening paragraph at least three times. I don’t know why but it bothers me.
SEO as “news”
They probably aren’t even written by a human at this point.
I think the idea is to pad out the content on the page so you have more ‘reasonable’ landscape to display ads. Like if you have ad breaks between every paragraph, more paragraphs = more ads.
AI weitten probably.
I’m not sure if that is just old fashioned lazy writing, or the even more lazy option of having AI generate the entire thing and not even bothering with proofreading it before publishing