Comment on Yea well it still can't have an existential crisis like humans can! Take that!

LoreSoong@startrek.website ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Search engines were returning shit more and more, before LLMs even existed.

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  • 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So they were enshittifying search engines in advance, so what?

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  • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When search engine optimization becomes a target, content suffers. If Google changed their algorithm to only rank websites with high quality content instead of keyword-stuffed content, we’d see a great improvement in the quality of the internet.

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    • Grenfur@pawb.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The real kicker is how you even decide what quality is. A one line script that updates a driver may be a solution to your issue. A four page walkthrough that rambles and gets you to your answer but only after an hour is still a solution, but is it better quality? The issue is that you can’t quantify quality. Even if you managed to for something like programming, you couldn’t apply that same logic to horticulture. The issue is that quality isn’t something you can stick in an algorithm.

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      • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Right, quality is not something that is easy to figure out algorithmically. But adding arbitrary rules like “content length” or “time on page” directly ruins quality by incentivizing content manipulation.

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    • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Then someone targets them for pushing their biases because they are deciding quality.

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• mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve never seen convincing arguments for that. However, if you think about it, Google wants you to stay scrolling through it forever. The more sponsored links and ads they can show, the more money they make. They didn’t need to make it worse for AI, they made it worse for profit

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  • LoreSoong@startrek.website ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Im encountering alot of AI created websites that explain concepts like “side effects of X pill” (a recent example) and there was basically no real medical websites in the top results, Just clearly AI using thousands of words to say nothing that I cant trust.

    I was considering locally hosting a search engine to circumvent my need for them entirely. Search engine optimization seems like a nightmare, if they were trying to give me useful results. So im not sure if that would be a spend 5 hours to save 5 minutes situation.

    As you and others said, Its been getting worse for years so its probably just a coincidence that its also profitable for AI.

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