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Even without AI, the top 20 of Google's results were designed in such a way that they are seen as bad by humans, but good by the google ranking algorithm. Arti
by marginalia_nu 4y ago
Even without AI, the top 20 of Google's results were designed in such a way that they are seen as bad by humans, but good by the google ranking algorithm.
Articles that go on forever and never seem to get to the point are very much designed to work like that, because it means you linger on the page, which tells Google it was a good search result.
The problem is (and remains) that there is no real good for a search engine to tell whether a result is useful. Click data and bounce rate can be gamed just as any other metric. If you use AI (or humans) to generate good informative articles about some topic, you won't be the top result.
- cwkoss 4y agoIt seems like all the problems with AI generated text are already existing problems that AI may exacerbate. A lot of people talk about them like these are new problems. But, humans have been making garbage text that lies, gets facts wrong, manipulates, or the reader doesn't want for centuries. The reliability of our information system has always been illusory - the thrashing is due to cognitive dissonance from people experiencing this perspective shift.