Comment by baggachipz
3 months ago
"Begun, the slop wars have."
I applaud any effort to stem the deluge of slop in search results. It's SEO spam all over again, but in a different package.
3 months ago
"Begun, the slop wars have."
I applaud any effort to stem the deluge of slop in search results. It's SEO spam all over again, but in a different package.
It is far worse. SEO spam was easy to detect for a human, even if it fooled the search engine. This is a proverbial deluge of crap and now you're left to find the crumbs. And the crap looks good. It's still crap, but it outperforms the real thing of look and feel as well as general language skills while it underperforms in the part that matters.
But I can see why other search engines love it: it further allows them to become the front door to all of the content without having to create any themselves.
I think search engines should be worried, because people will silently lose faith in their results and start using AI chat instead.
If search engines fail to find genuine, authentic content for me, and they just pipe me to LLM articles, I may as as well go straight to the LLM.
That will, if it is really adopted that widely, result in a freeze on available information.
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> It's still crap, but it outperforms the real thing of look and feel as well as general language skills while it underperforms in the part that matters.
The real thing meant human SEO spam? Or human writing?
Actual knowledge and understanding.
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Ironically, the group that hates AI-generated content the most are the SEO bros. They hate that AI summaries in search results cut into their main business of making confusing, long-winded articles to attempt to entice the largest amount of clicks or view time for a one-sentence answer. I wouldn't be surprised if they are the ones actually behind pushes like this.