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Re: Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion

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Post by senectus1 »

jsheard wrote: post #6

If you ask it how many Muslim presidents the US has had, it will confidently tell you that Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim. I'm beginning to think that treating statistically common sequences of words on the whole internet as a source of truth may not actually be a very good idea. edit: screenshots for posterity https://x.com/TVietor08/status/1793768913245020502

yeeahhhh thats a good contemporary example of how AI + nation state level forces of influencing is going to ruin AI and anything that touches it.

Re: Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion

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Post by carlosjobim »

rovr138 wrote: post #43
pylua wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t know, but I am curious as how they are going to monetize it.

I'm curious how websites will stay in business once it's kinda good or people just start thinking it's true

You will pay Google to insert your ads into AI generated answers. No need for the hassle of creating a website anymore. What a relief for businesses!

Re: Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion

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Post by __loam »

Frost1x wrote: post #83
datameta wrote: post #38

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Or with even higher granularity, via citing.

Oh boy talk about inviting yourself to IP lawsuits galore. While it’s nice thought and in many cases probably impractical (returning source information that far down the rabbit hole), even if it were possible and practical it would be against a business operating these services best interests.

It is citing its sources already lol

Re: Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion

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Post by balder1991 »

rovr138 wrote: post #43
pylua wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t know, but I am curious as how they are going to monetize it.

I'm curious how websites will stay in business once it's kinda good or people just start thinking it's true

Maybe the websites remaining will be genuinely interesting texts that you’d actually want to read instead of just query for an answer.

Re: Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion

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Post by pylua »

carlosjobim wrote: post #92
rovr138 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious how websites will stay in business once it's kinda good or people just start thinking it's true

You will pay Google to insert your ads into AI generated answers. No need for the hassle of creating a website anymore. What a relief for businesses!

That’s an interesting thought. Just order your fast food through Gemini, or schedule your car repair or book a hotel directly through gemini without going to a different website.

I haven’t even considered that.

Re: Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion

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Post by rovr138 »

pylua wrote: post #56
rovr138 wrote: post #43

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I'm curious how websites will stay in business once it's kinda good or people just start thinking it's true

Seems like eventually, it would become the dominant predator, and deplete its food supply?

With these companies crawling the internet, it’ll be a race to create content. Then reuse the models to generate more, new content for your website

It’ll be diminishing returns for visitors

Re: Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion

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Post by rovr138 »

carlosjobim wrote: post #92
rovr138 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious how websites will stay in business once it's kinda good or people just start thinking it's true

You will pay Google to insert your ads into AI generated answers. No need for the hassle of creating a website anymore. What a relief for businesses!

I swear I saw a screenshot of Microsoft’s with ads inline. I couldn’t find it after.

Re: Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion

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Post by rovr138 »

balder1991 wrote: post #95
rovr138 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious how websites will stay in business once it's kinda good or people just start thinking it's true

Maybe the websites remaining will be genuinely interesting texts that you’d actually want to read instead of just query for an answer.

Sure, things like blogs.

But if you need info for a movie or something, where will the data come from? Back to newspapers?

Re: Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion

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Post by mike_d »

shooker435 wrote: post #71
mike_d wrote: post #40

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Google was always better than Yahoo/Bing at dealing with webspam (whether Google can continue to beat current webspam is a different debate). Bing is happily traning on the things they don't know are bad results. Garbage in garbage out. The only competition Google needs to worry about is Google's leadership. Once Cloud brought in TK and they started actively recruiting from Microsoft and Oracle it was like an infecti…

Not sure if it's strictly the recruiting pool that made things break down, but I see it more as a result of COVID/WFH + the recruiting pool. Google's strong in-office culture once helped new joiners learn the culture and challenge others in a respectful way - now it's a political minefield. Remote work is great, but it probably accelerated Google's culture decline. If you've been there a while, you'll notice the wild…

> Remote work is great, but it probably accelerated Google's culture decline.

Absolutely agree. A lot of the top talent bailed when they started demanding return to office. Google played the "if you don't X we will fire you" with a bunch of L7+ that ... surprise, could easily get jobs elsewhere or had enough GSUs to flat out retire.

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