Comment by jacquesm
3 months ago
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.
Thing is LLM can be trained on things not available on the public internet, unlike search engines having to return public URLs.
I’m sure all these agentic AI are slurping in all proprietary codebases and their documentations and training on them. It’s the only way to one up the competition.
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Why would anybody even bother publishing or adding new content if the only thing that ever reads or interacts with it are bots?
I use the shit out LLM’s but you know what they can’t do? Create brand new ideas. They can refine yours, sure. They can take existing knowledge and map it into whatever you’re cooking. But on their own, nope. They just repeat what is in their training data and context window.
If all “new” content comes from LLM’s drawing from a huge pool of other LLM content… it’s just one giant echo chamber with nothing new being added. A planet wide circle jerk of LLMs complementing each other on what excellent ideas they all have and how they are really cutting to the heart of the issue. “Now I see the issue” they all say based on the slop context ingested from some other LLM who “saw the issue” from a third LLM. It’s LLMs all the way down.
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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.
> It's still crap, but it outperforms Actual knowledge and understanding of look and feel as well as general language skills while it underperforms in the part that matters.
I would think this meant AI generated pages performed better in search engines but looked, felt, used language, and informed worse. But you said the crap looks good.