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Right, the domain itself is a huge signal. Information can have a very different meaning and trustworthiness if appears on the blog of a known expert vs the NYT

by rurp 2y ago

Right, the domain itself is a huge signal. Information can have a very different meaning and trustworthiness if appears on the blog of a known expert vs the NYT vs some spam site like Quora. Google wants the only context to be Google. Even if the AI results are as good as organic ones, which is not a terribly high bar these days, it will be much less useful and trustworthy because nobody knows the provenance of the information. It's really unfortunate that Google is going to torch so much of the open internet in order to shovel this nonsense onto people. Of course as organic search traffic dries up and reduces new high quality content, and AI slop floods the internet, the GenAI results will get even worse.

nerdjon 2y ago
The thing that really concerns me is it isn't just Google, they are putting it right in front of a lot of people thanks to this change. But yes, it being Google that is doing it, is giving it a view of quality that just isn't there. You contrast this with the demo's showed for chatgpt-4o and we are building this idea that we can really trust this. I was just having a conversation with someone over the weekend that I was like, yes I acknowledge that the tech is really good, just in a couple years it has advanced a ton, but I really think we are overselling its current capabilities and ignoring where it falls flat on its face. That we are going too quick rolling this technology out to the average user in every day situations. And there response was basically, no don't think so. It is ready to be used, there are not these big issues, and so on. Thats really scary. And these are fundamental issues with this type of technology but "we can't risk another company putting out their misguided dangerous product so we must do it first!" I am convinced that is the general attitude at these companies right now.

by rurp 2y ago

nerdjon 2y ago

The thing that really concerns me is it isn't just Google, they are putting it right in front of a lot of people thanks to this change. But yes, it being Google that is doing it, is giving it a view of quality that just isn't there. You contrast this with the demo's showed for chatgpt-4o and we are building this idea that we can really trust this. I was just having a conversation with someone over the weekend that I was like, yes I acknowledge that the tech is really good, just in a couple years it has advanced a ton, but I really think we are overselling its current capabilities and ignoring where it falls flat on its face. That we are going too quick rolling this technology out to the average user in every day situations. And there response was basically, no don't think so. It is ready to be used, there are not these big issues, and so on. Thats really scary. And these are fundamental issues with this type of technology but "we can't risk another company putting out their misguided dangerous product so we must do it first!" I am convinced that is the general attitude at these companies right now.