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Not bad enough to be outright spam with just enough relevance to be shown in the top ten search results. Try finding product reviews, or product comparison arti

Not bad enough to be outright spam with just enough relevance to be shown in the top ten search results. Try finding product reviews, or product comparison articles. It will likely be LLM garbage that doesn't say anything, but uses the right keywords and enough coherency to be indexed.

HeckFeck 3y ago
It's obvious LLM tripe when you click into the article and it begins with several worthless paragraphs describing why someone would be interested in the topic and how things can sometimes go wrong... Yes, I already knew that. That's why I'm here. It might be an attempt to copy customer service 'empathy' but it has the opposite effect: angering me because my time is wasted with this crap, and I have to scroll several screens to find what I need.
- chrisweekly 3y ago
  Tangent: your use of the word "tripe" here is spot-on. The secondary definition (nonsense) works, but I'm talking about the apt metaphor of its primary definition: offal that's technically edible but comes from low-quality parts of the digestive system which are literally filled with feces. LLM-generated SEO spam should always be called "tripe".
  - moomin 3y ago
    Honestly, a lot of this isn't LLM stuff. It's "people being paid pittance".
    - chrisweekly 3y ago
      Good point; maybe all clickbait and SEO spam, regardless of human provenance, counts as "tripe".
swader999 3y ago
And the content itself is just a reflection of the search. Whole web is turning to rot such that the only few remaining great sites don't even need indexing because well there's so few left.
mschuster91 3y ago
> It will likely be LLM garbage that doesn't say anything, but uses the right keywords and enough coherency to be indexed. Or some site that "aggregates" Stackoverflow, Quora and whatnot. Pure hell and I wish everything bad possible on this planet to the people who have implemented this kind of scam.
- saaspirant 3y ago
  I block them using uBlacklist in Firefox. My blacklist is growing.

HeckFeck 3y ago

It's obvious LLM tripe when you click into the article and it begins with several worthless paragraphs describing why someone would be interested in the topic and how things can sometimes go wrong... Yes, I already knew that. That's why I'm here. It might be an attempt to copy customer service 'empathy' but it has the opposite effect: angering me because my time is wasted with this crap, and I have to scroll several screens to find what I need.

chrisweekly 3y ago
Tangent: your use of the word "tripe" here is spot-on. The secondary definition (nonsense) works, but I'm talking about the apt metaphor of its primary definition: offal that's technically edible but comes from low-quality parts of the digestive system which are literally filled with feces. LLM-generated SEO spam should always be called "tripe".
- moomin 3y ago
  Honestly, a lot of this isn't LLM stuff. It's "people being paid pittance".
  - chrisweekly 3y ago
    Good point; maybe all clickbait and SEO spam, regardless of human provenance, counts as "tripe".

swader999 3y ago

And the content itself is just a reflection of the search. Whole web is turning to rot such that the only few remaining great sites don't even need indexing because well there's so few left.

mschuster91 3y ago

> It will likely be LLM garbage that doesn't say anything, but uses the right keywords and enough coherency to be indexed. Or some site that "aggregates" Stackoverflow, Quora and whatnot. Pure hell and I wish everything bad possible on this planet to the people who have implemented this kind of scam.

saaspirant 3y ago
I block them using uBlacklist in Firefox. My blacklist is growing.