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Purpose of websites with randomly generated content?

I'm assuming its a blackhat SEO trick to gather more clicks, but is that their only purpose? And why?

I've noticed various searches (usually specific topics that don't have many legitimate results) return sites that are filled with garbage, they're literally just randomly generated paragraphs in Wordpress. These sites don't seem to be used to propogate malware or for phishing, the domains are completely random and probably don't hold much value, they don't host any ads, and they don't have any linkbacks. And yet there are tons of them, so people are clearly spending money on them for some reason.

Anyone here know what they are being used for?

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