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"I had been paid up until my last few invoices." said Geoff in response to a comment on his site.

Another comment asked if there was anything people can do, Geoff said in part "and tagging DO where they pay attention".

I have two guesses why Google does this:

1) Google wants the most money, so they don't care to let dodgy ads thru.

2) There are more ads going out then can be reviewed, so they would rather have people report them, then they automatically reject the report until enough people report it, then an actual person may review it.

As to why Google doesn't use AI to review them? Google would rather use the AI in a way that makes them more money, than review ads and if AI decides to take them down then that's less money for Google.

(To be clear: I don't work for Google in any way, these are just my guesses)

I just had a look through my logs, and I've had over 90,000 requests from known AI bots over the last month. All this to a personal website that doesn't post very often.

And that's just known AI, I can't imagine what requests are pretending to a real person when they aren't.