ScalziI don't really want "AI" in my search results. What I actually want are search results that accurately correspond to my queries. So far the "AI" tech companies have been showing off tends to do a lot of fabulation; that doesn't bode well for good search results.
Charlie Stross@scalzi It's a misapplication of AI. What any search company *should* be doing is training language models to detect SEO and ruthlessly derank spammy or junk content from the search results.
But Google isn't a search company. Google is the advertising behemoth formerly known as Doubleclick, with a search subsidiary to sucker in the public eyeballs. And the more time you waste staring at the web pages carrying their ads the more use your eyeballs are to them.
Google doesn't work for you or me.
Gregg "Cabe" Bond