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It's kinda exciting. The social media status quo has its upsides but a lot of downsides. I'm hopeful that the change will be good. We'll have to figure out a way to authenticate the people we're talking to, which will encourage tighter-knit communities.
This will end with the only way to authenticate the people we're talking to is meeting them at the coffeeshop in the morning.
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Ironically this post is doing wonders for its page rank, as people are linking to it in the comments
Now that we have better ML, maybe we could take "link sentiment" into account too.
I've seen this blog slop on Google for the last month or so, no action taken whatsoever. it's mostly bullshit or regurgitated info from docs. like Google or their Search team really doesn't seem to care at all. all of a sudden a random blog website just happens to rank first page on every topic
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These blog posts are written by the OneUptime team and open source contributors. We write about our experiences, our learnings, and our thoughts on the world of software development, Kubernetes, Ceph, SRE, DevOps, Cloud and more. We hope you find our posts helpful and insightful.
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It's becoming much harder to determine on a daily basis what content is original, thought-out by a person, and trustworthy. Ironically, verifiably-old content is easier to trust now. Examples from recent personal experience: 1) Some time ago I was searching for growing information about a specific and uncommonly-grown plant, and was led to a top-ranked website with long pages containing everything about it, including…
Or on the other end you could have someone who wrote a sentance or two in their language and had some combination of AI generation and translation algorithm bloat it out.
In both cases you will get something that can look right and well thought out or explained, but probably will have at least some of the AI slop signs present. I don't know what the solution is for this type given claims Google Translate has started to do this kind of translation for people. An AI translation is probably just as prone to hallucinations as any other AI, but it probably will look more natural to readers than a direct translation.
The sentinel servers, meta/google/ms/etc. just seem to be largely ignoring it, or even supporting it.
It's already nauseatingly common on all major platforms.
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Now that we have better ML, maybe we could take "link sentiment" into account too.
I don't know how good it was, but sentiment analysis was definitely a thing pre-ChatGPT.
Ironically due to slop I feel like we are regressing as a civilization 2020, want to know how to use Redix for Redis connections in Elixir? Google it and the results were most likely high quality, written by senior engineers who knew what they were doing Today google that, and it will be endless amounts of slop
> Redix for Redis connections in Elixir I googled this exact sentence, and the third result was a link to the blog this post is about. Grim.
Two things you can do:
- Navigate back and open another link. This signal is used to downrank for given query (google assumes the site did no provide satisfying answer)
- Explicitly provide result feedback. Unfortunately there isn't a category for "this is slop" but "inaccurate" works.
At which URL(s) are the blog posts visible?