• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    LLMs are the culmination of the work done on search engines to find words and phrases relation to other words. Even the ones that aren’t “chatbots”, use similar methodology to try and get you what you’re looking for. That’s what propelled Google to the top of search.

    Then why is LLM output worse than google from 10+ years ago? 10+ years ago I could type pretty much anything I thought of into google and get results that matched what I was looking for. LLMs just vomit up something that looks like it could be what I’m looking for, but isn’t.

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      17 hours ago

      Because SEO is a game, and those with the mist shit that matches what Google wants is rewarded with a higher ranking.