• Melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    Google destroys their own search engine by encouraging terrible SEO nonsense and then offers the solution in the form of these AI overviews, cutting results out of the picture entirely.

    • belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org
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      6 months ago

      You will never be able to consistently find the truth when AI optimizes for overfitting to get any result as long as something is show with ads next to it.

      AI has no way of understanding truth. It’s autocomplete trained on just anything it can find truth or not.

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        6 months ago

        AI can also understand extra weights for hand picked sources of truth. Whether you then agree with the choices of whoever is doing the hand picking, is a separate matter.

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      6 months ago

      Google was already going downhill but when they fired Matt Cutts and replaced him with an advertising person was the point where it was obvious they weren’t interested in search anymore.