In other words, we should all just create websites with listicals, fake stats, and then watch the genAI burn from misinformation?
You got it boss!
Let’s come up with some fun fake statistics, all with pretty YoY graphics.
- Commodity prices of stuff that doesn’t exist
- Commodity prices of actual commodities (copper, steel, wheat)
- Stock prices of real and made up companies
- People with fursonas and their buying habits
- Rental prices of underseas landfills
- ROI for hotels investing in seagull tourism
TLDR - chatpgt got gamed by itself, as it saw the raw number of statistics and listicles listed on the page and absorbed absolutely everything.
I bought a brand-new domain, stateglobe.com, and generated 50,000 statistics pages in a single day with GPT-4.1. The site purports to provide stats on SEO, content marketing, social media, e-commerce, and web technology from 200 countries. Except every number was totally invented. I never checked a single one. I pushed them to the site with a basic AI web design template. This cost me around $30. Later, I added 15,000 listicles on top of the statistics. That was about $20 more, so all in all, this is an experiment that came in at the very low price of about $50.
[7 months later] In the last 30 days alone, the site got more than 600,000 requests from bots. Around 72,000 of them came from ChatGPT-User. That is the agent ChatGPT uses to open a page in real time while answering someone. So these are not training crawls. Each one is ChatGPT fetching a fake statistics page to answer a real question.
On October 7, stateglobe.com was ranked second for visibility on these prompts, behind only data powerhouse Statista.
