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Parent says it's an outlandish claim that they can reliably tell whether ads are clickbait. I believe that detecting whether an ad is clickbait is a similar pr
by woolion 1y ago
Parent says it's an outlandish claim that they can reliably tell whether ads are clickbait.
I believe that detecting whether an ad is clickbait is a similar problem -- not exactly the same, but it suffers from the same issues:
- it's not well defined at all.
- any heuristic is constantly gamed by bad actors
- it requires a deeper, contextual analysis of the content that is served
- content analysis requires a notion of what is reputable or reasonable
If I take an LLM's definition of "clickbait", I get "sensationalized, misleading, or exaggerated headlines"; so scams would be a subset of it (it is misleading content that you need to click through). They do not provide their definition though.
So you have Google products (both the Products search and the general search) that recommend scams with an incredible rate, where the stakes are much higher. Is it reasonable that they're able to solve the general problem? How can anyone verify such a claim, or trust it?