Search engine results are getting worse, research confirms
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'Search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam,' says study
  • Lmaydev@programming.devEnglish
    102·
    11 months ago

    The newer ones search the internet and generate from the results not their training and provide sources.

    So that’s not such a worry now.

    Anyone who used ChatGPT for information and not text generation was always using it wrong.

    • BakerBagel@midwest.socialEnglish
      141·
      11 months ago

      Except people are using LLM to generate web pages on something to get clicks. Which means LLM’s are training off of information generated by other LLM’s. It’s an ouroboros of fake information.

      • Lmaydev@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        But again if you use LLMs ability to understand and generate text via a search engine that doesn’t matter.

        LLMs are not supposed to give factual answers. That’s not their purpose at all.