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In practice I think it's more Google now has another policy reason to banhammer prolific and irritating blogspammers than an arms race Google has a chance in.
by notahacker 5y ago
In practice I think it's more Google now has another policy reason to banhammer prolific and irritating blogspammers than an arms race Google has a chance in.
Google isn't yet effective at detecting blogspam generated by naive scripts that simply swap words in the source material for other words in a thesaurus. I don't think they're going to start picking up continuity errors, factual errors or "weirdness" in GPT-3 - which often satisfies human readers - any time soon.
- notreallyserio 5y agoGoogle engineers can't even filter out GH or SO scraped sites like gitmemory, nor offer a way to let users block these sites. I'm not sure we should expect them to handle more advanced techniques like detecting word swaps any time soon.
- omnicognate 5y agos/can't/won't/
- notreallyserio 5y agoGoogle search has been poor for years. I think it's time to say can't.
- omnicognate 5y agoThat isn't how it works. Long term refusal to do it isn't evidence their engineers are incapable of it. Blacklisting sites is trivial. They've always been able to do it and they do it routinely to this day. The reason those results remain in your searches is because sending people to those sites makes Google money, and by definition that is of greater value to Google than the quality and relevance of your search results as a non-paying user.
- m-p-3 5y agoThis filter list for uBO will likely be useful to you https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter
- notreallyserio 5y agoThe main reason I haven't tried this yet is I am concerned what would happen if every result is one of these spam sites that has fooled Google engineers for so long. Do I get a suspiciously blank page? The other reason is I started using a search engine that cracked the code to let users rank and block sites (kagi) so I don't have to worry about it.
- zitterbewegung 5y agoI am unsure about that but using GPT-3 in that manner would certainly trigger OpenAI's automatic or manual systems and would violate their ToS and your account would be locked.
- Oras 5y agoWith GPT-3, yes but how about other generators? There are lots of emerging services that spammers can use.
- htrp 5y agoDoes OpenAI actually have those systems? My impression is they are happy to take your money and just tell you not to do those un-nice things
- elevaet 5y agoDon't be evil (tm) ?
- zitterbewegung 5y agoThere is an approval process and when using the prototyping system it warns you about bad words.