Perplexity is about to learn that Google is an anti-spam company first, search engine second
Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
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Re: Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
#12What protection do LLM search engines have against training off content generated by other LLMs? Will we get to a point where AI-generated sites make up a majority of the internet, and LLMs are training upon their own regurgitations, with exponential amplification of all their lies and flaws? Or will the pre-2022 corpus human knowledge be considered the low-background steel standard, and anything after that less and…
I have a feeling we're already there.
Re: Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
#13Begun, the AI SEO wars have.
Has the industry already started to search for a better name than AI SEO for this?
Re: Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
#14my friend works for a company called 'profound' whose whole job is 'get found by ai' by spamming reddit and other talk sites ( among other things)
Re: Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
#15I used one of the 12-month free Perplexity offers when they were everywhere. It felt slightly useful at first for simple queries where I didn’t want to go through the top 10 Google results manually. If I was looking for a specific recipe I remembered or a help page or user manual it would usually find it quickly. Then they started optimizing for speed of responses over quality of results. I can enter a query and see…
If they had some sort of tier that was like $5 to $10 and the main thing it had on it was their custom model for research, no other model, I might re-subscribe, but they were definitely burning way too much compute trying to give it away in the hopes others kept their subscription. I was using it to trim down on my direct Claude Compute usage since they ran me unmetered for a while.
I would draft a development plan with Claude on there, then feed it to Claude Code. This isn't sustainable, but given that I had x number of months pre-paid for, I just used it.
Re: Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
#16What protection do LLM search engines have against training off content generated by other LLMs? Will we get to a point where AI-generated sites make up a majority of the internet, and LLMs are training upon their own regurgitations, with exponential amplification of all their lies and flaws? Or will the pre-2022 corpus human knowledge be considered the low-background steel standard, and anything after that less and…
I have a feeling we're already there.
The weird babbling reported from Opus 5 might be a result of either a bad system prompt or bad training data.
Re: Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
#17What protection do LLM search engines have against training off content generated by other LLMs? Will we get to a point where AI-generated sites make up a majority of the internet, and LLMs are training upon their own regurgitations, with exponential amplification of all their lies and flaws? Or will the pre-2022 corpus human knowledge be considered the low-background steel standard, and anything after that less and…
> What protection do LLM search engines have against training off content generated by other LLMs?
You're talking about a scenario that won't blow itself up in the next few quarters, so it's of no interest to them.
Re: Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
#18If I recall correctly, there were some papers which suggested that LLMs favor LLM-generated passages over human written ones. I can consistently reproduce this by asking Claude which code snippet it prefers: the one it generated in a different chat, or one that I refactored for my own needs and find more useful. It always picks its own :) I've also experienced that both Claude and Codex routinely include generated websites when I ask them to search for something. It also doesn't help that the web search tools that OAI and Anthropic have are deeply limiting: can't exclude keywords or domains.
Re: Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
#19Perplexity is about to learn that Google is an anti-spam company first, search engine second
Well, was. They did a bad job of it these last few years which allowed any AI that could crawl the web to seem amazing for search because it could pick the best posts from Reddit or whatever other forum had the best context for your question, but now we're watching the AI snake eat its own tail.
Re: Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
#20Perplexity is about to learn that Google is an anti-spam company first, search engine second
Well, was. They did a bad job of it these last few years which allowed any AI that could crawl the web to seem amazing for search because it could pick the best posts from Reddit or whatever other forum had the best context for your question, but now we're watching the AI snake eat its own tail.
Hard to conclusively beat spam when your primary means of making money is selling the very ads that the spammers are using to make money.