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Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s

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Re: Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s

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The question of course is how well that level of quality will hold up now that more and more of the internet is AI generated, and said AI generated content is being sourced for said AI tools. It feels like our choices are either to only get information from a certain time period or earlier, or to accept the information provided by Open AI and co is only going to get worse and worse over time...

Re: Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s

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> Enter 2024 with AI. The top 20% of search results are a wall of text from AI...

I'll be the contrarian here and say I actually like Google's AI Overview? For the first time in a long time, I can search for an answer to a question and, instead of getting annoying ads and SEO-optimized uselessness, I actually get an answer.

Google is finally useful again. That said, once Google screws with this and starts making search challenging again, as it has been for years, I'll go elsewhere.

Re: Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s

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SEO ruined the web, guided by Google's ranking algorithm.

Things will get even worse as scammy companies start flooding the web with LLM generated content pushing their products to bias LLMs to increase the probability of outputing their name for keywords related to their business.

Re: Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s

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chatGPT offers bullshit answers faster, and more confidently. However the issue for openAI is the cost of business is _horrifically_ expensive.

Sure they charge some users for premium access, but they aren't currently enough to cover costs.

openAI needs a step change in performance, and that meta doesn't release an open-source version of it and a step change in compute efficiency.

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