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> Legacy ad-based search has devolved into a wasteland of misaligned incentives, conflict of interest and content farms optimized for ads and algos instead of h

by gmd63 2y ago

> Legacy ad-based search has devolved into a wasteland of misaligned incentives, conflict of interest and content farms optimized for ads and algos instead of humans. > Path forward requires solving the core challenge: actually surfacing the content people want to see, not what intermediaries want them to see These traps and patterns are not inevitable. They happen by choice. If you're actively polluting the world with AI generated drivel or SEO garbage, you're working against humanity, and you're sacrificing the gift of knowing right from wrong, abandoning life as a human to live as some insectoid automaton that's mind controlled by "business" pheromones. We are all working together every day to produce the greatest art project in the universe, the most complex society of life known to exist. Our selfish choices will tarnish the painting or create dissonance in the music accordingly. The problem will be fixed only with culture at an individual level, especially as technology enables individuals to make more of an impact. It starts with voting against Trump next week, rejecting the biggest undue handout to a failed grifter who has no respect for law, order, or anyone other than himself.

handfuloflight 2y ago
Do you equate AI generated with drivel?
- gmd63 2y ago
  No, but there are many who use AI to mass produce drivel
  - handfuloflight 2y ago
    Does their drivel actually stand out or gain market share?
    - antonvs 2y ago
      It doesn’t really have to. A lot of it is spam sites that are just farming ad revenue, for example.
      - handfuloflight 2y ago
        Does that mean all of their traffic is fake? If that's the case, we had this issue before AI.
        antonvs 2y ago
        No, it's real traffic. People get there via search engines typically. The sites are set up to rank highly for common search terms. The problem is that many people aren't savvy enough to recognize when they've hit such a site. This scam did exist before AI, but AI has made it much easier to flood the internet with sites like this, and make them seem much more useful.
TRiG_Ireland 2y ago
On the one hand, you're not wrong. On the other, asking for individuals to change culture never reliably works.

by gmd63 2y ago

handfuloflight 2y ago

Do you equate AI generated with drivel?

gmd63 2y ago
No, but there are many who use AI to mass produce drivel
- handfuloflight 2y ago
  Does their drivel actually stand out or gain market share?
  - antonvs 2y ago
    It doesn’t really have to. A lot of it is spam sites that are just farming ad revenue, for example.
    - handfuloflight 2y ago
      Does that mean all of their traffic is fake? If that's the case, we had this issue before AI.
      - antonvs 2y ago
        No, it's real traffic. People get there via search engines typically. The sites are set up to rank highly for common search terms. The problem is that many people aren't savvy enough to recognize when they've hit such a site. This scam did exist before AI, but AI has made it much easier to flood the internet with sites like this, and make them seem much more useful.

TRiG_Ireland 2y ago

On the one hand, you're not wrong. On the other, asking for individuals to change culture never reliably works.