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> Google requests a set of documents that turn out to be LLM generated > Other prompts using Google data make more content for Google to crawl and request > L
by distortionfield 4y ago
> Google requests a set of documents that turn out to be LLM generated
> Other prompts using Google data make more content for Google to crawl and request
> Lather, rinse, repeat
AI contamination is already starting. There's no way that content written by an LLM hasn't already been used to train an LLM.
- jameshart 4y agoI’m not talking about LLM feedback loops (that is a problem but a different one. Honestly LLMs slurping up low effort human produced SEO docs is just as bad.) This issue is more about the value of search finding ‘documents’ when ‘documents’ are thin layers of low-value-add LLM cruft over raw factual data. The facts are what you’re searching for; search indexing has always involved trying to figure out the underlying informational content of a document; LLM prettification is just adding obfuscation over that data that search indexers then have to try to remove. There has to be a more efficient way for a website to say ‘we have all the earnings data for every US public company’ without them having to dress that up in LLM prettification that google’s language model can index.