Welcome to the cycle of generative AI making search worse.

Quora uses ChatGPT which hallucinates an answer to a nonsense question.

Google Search picks up this nonsense answer from Quora which has high page rank and treats it as an instant answer.

@carnage4life

I'm interested in how many iterations it will take for the bullshit machine (chatgpt) to ingest its own product before the output is just gray entropy goop.

@float13 @carnage4life Exactly! Timothy Shoup predicted that 99% to 99.9% of content online might be AI generated by 2025 to 2030, if that turned out correct, that would imply the LLMs were endlessly eating and regurgitating their own output. Nothing novel would ever be produced. However, I suspect that last point would be the thing that makes people rebel and prevent this from ever coming to pass.