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AI has successfully scraped enough of their content so that they are no longer needed. Thanks for creating the content, now someone else will make money with
by StLCylone 7mo ago
AI has successfully scraped enough of their content so that they are no longer needed. Thanks for creating the content, now someone else will make money with it.
- spudlyo 7mo agoFranky, good riddance. The websites that had SEO optimized their way to the top of Google's search results for queries like "how to change DNS settings", "best free VPN", or "best wireless earbuds under $300" were generally terrible, and I can't say I'm sad that that creating that kind of "content" is no longer economically viable. There were large categories of information had become extremely difficult to search for thanks to SEO optimized content farms like these. People switching to Reddit for discovery because of this search index pollution was a direct response to this. To me, LLMs feel like a return to the golden age of AltaVista and Google, where the Internet was a place you could reliably find the information you were looking for.
- m4tthumphrey 7mo agoYou'll just see it within AI responses instead.
- ssl-3 7mo agoCertainly so. But we aren't there quite yet; that's tomorrow's problem. And I still have things that I need to do today.
- terminalshort 7mo agoI find that the AI surfaces things from actual manuals and data that were once easy to find in Google search before SEO ruined it.
- SketchySeaBeast 7mo agoYeah, that's only going to last until the first bad actor. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt-and-googles-ai-and-it-only-took-20-minutes https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt...
- marginalia_nu 7mo agoIt seems very easy to manipulate. Noticed the other day it now heavily cites and sources my one of my blog post to support the claim that yes, AI makes you boring if you google "Does AI make you boring?" If you search "Does AI make you interesting?", it drums up other sources to support that contradictory claim as well.
- paulnpace 7mo ago[flagged]
- esseph 7mo ago> And now we can enjoy Marxist advertising ("posts") within our discussions on how to replace a TPMS sensor. Reddit is Marxist? Hilarious. I can't believe real people believe shit like this. Truly, the state of education is dire. Marx and Engles must be rolling in their graves as a beacon of capitalistic tech is called "Marixst". What a silly world we live in.
- Henchman21 7mo agoPlease, for the class, stand up in front and define "Marxism" for us.
- tempodox 7mo agoExcept when they just hallucinate an answer that is plainly wrong.
- rurp 7mo agoWhat do you think is going to happen to LLM content after it has replaced the rest of the internet? It sure as hell isn't going to stay relatively unbiased and ad-free. The degradation of Google Search is probably an optimistic comparison.
- seydor 7mo agogood luck in 4 years when the only answer they can give about new hardware is "I don't know"
- antisthenes 7mo agoNo worries. We're on track to make consumer hardware unaffordable for the average user in 4 years anyway. You'll rent it and use whatever is available for the low low price of $79.99/mo*
- hackeraccount 7mo agohttps://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-07-13 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-07-13
- mjr00 7mo agoYet these sites now use AI to generate more "content" (slop) than ever, leveraging their high Google rankings and SEO to lure people in. The people who haven't switched to an LLM for search, anyway. Truly an ouroboros of garbage.
- SirMaster 7mo agoBut where will the AI get new information when the websites stop publishing new info?