• Snapz@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    We need a google that uses AI/ML to hunt and de-rank the 1800 word essay web pages that answer the question, “how long should you microwave a baked potato for?”

    “In 1863, county cork in Ireland, Shamus O’Toole created the world first commercial potato farm. He’d go on to…”

    These scammy useless sites are numbing - they pad a thousand plus empty, filler words on either side of the buried wrong, weak answer you would have just glanced by in the past. They are so formulaic and obvious, that an AI could probably identify them as such 10 times out of 10 without an effort.

    Google chooses not to fix things like this. Because fuck you.

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      10 months ago

      We need a google that uses AI/ML to hunt and de-rank the 1800 word essay web pages that answer the question, “how long should you microwave a baked potato for?”

      “In 1863, county cork in Ireland, Shamus O’Toole created the world first commercial potato farm. He’d go on to…”

      Exactly what it feels like if I’m asked to “write an 700-word article” somehow. Most of it is just filler material, really.

    • UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      It’s funny because those essays are a symptom of SEO ranking. We’d better be certain that any automation we try to employ to fix this doesn’t lead to a worse problem.