Well, fuck. The GPT disinformation age is now.
I googled "OS for 4gb ram" and the first hit, which also was used by google to populate its snippet is an answer from quora which is very obviously created with #chatgpt (I recognised the non-committal non-answer right away, but it can also be detected by a popular GPT detector).
The user has 98 answers and, you've guessed it, they are all created with GPT.
PLOT TWIST: The questions where also created with GPT!
I’m starting to think very few people care about useful search.
This is the inherent problem with the corporatisation of the web - when your customers are advertisers, the only concern is showing adverts, rather than providing information.
Same mindset that brings us this:
https://gizmodo.com/cnet-ai-chatgpt-news-robot-1849996151
I've been making stuff that's been broadly categorised (by other people) as "online content" for about two decades, and since the earliest entry of large business into the space, absolutely no shits have been given by ad sales people about the stuff that sits alongside the adverts.
I vaguely recall.
I also remember a Yahoo! search experiment with a slider that let you tweak how much ad supported content was returned in search... (or something like that. All the developers disappeared shortly afterwords.)
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