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It seems to me (or I hope) this isn't really much different from the current situation: we already have a ton of useless quasi-content made up only for search e
by riffraff 4y ago
It seems to me (or I hope) this isn't really much different from the current situation: we already have a ton of useless quasi-content made up only for search engines, just look for something like "best android phone" or whatever.
Search engines will have to rely more on signals outside the content, such as links from other authoritative sources, but it does not look like a qualitatively different world.
- college_physics 4y agoI agree it is a quantitative difference at its core but cheap automation can dramatically lower the signal to noise. Crossing a certain quality threshold may eventually precipitate binary behavioral changes for users (i.e. conclude that certain online tools are unusable / untrustworthy) I also agree that authoritative sources become critical. Yet those typically rely on very human assessments (with their own pitfals and controversies) and in any case much more slow / costly to develop. How exactly this all will play out is not clear (to me). But the naive technosolutionism of deploying "AI at scale" and believing that it will just work as advertised seems misplaced. The human condition is very reflexive.