ianwremmelOct 25, 2024
Angus McIntyre

Searching for something on the Web, I ended up on a page that had clearly been generated by #ChatGPT or something similar: a plausible, authoritative, detailed post that was, from start to finish, total bullshit. On inspection, the entire site turned out to be similar #AI-generated clickbait.

There needs to be a zero-tolerance, one-strike-and-you're-out #SEO death penalty for this kind of thing. Post AI nonsense & you never get indexed again.

The Web won't survive otherwise.

Oct 25, 2024 at 12:41pmIvory for Mac
Show threadBosque BillOct 25, 2024
@angusm Yeah, someone should deploy an AI to search for, detect, and de-list those pages. (sarcasm, I hope.)
Show threadx0Oct 25, 2024
@bosquebill @angusm Remember how AI cheating detection disproportionately generated false positives for minorities? Now scale that to the internet.
Show threadTor Iver WilhelmsenOct 25, 2024
@angusm Search Engine Ostracization
Show threadJoshOct 25, 2024
@angusm I increasingly feel that the main search providers, Google et al don't actually want the web to survive - walled gardens are more monetisable 😐
Show threadCluster FckuOct 25, 2024
@angusm there won't be a seo death penalty, just a loose collection of self declared listing bodies so sites can have a no-AI emblem, with or without inspection, which is then diluted, circumvented and cheated, because quality is bad for dollars. Then FANGs will have their own certification, each allowing their own flavor of "with organic" content. If critics don't like AI content there will be plenty of gasl-ai-ting.
Show threadunexpectedteapotOct 25, 2024

@angusm "SEO" IS what got us to this point. We need no more gamified "competition" to see who can screw people's time and resources the most (surprise surprise it's the guys with capital to invest in bullshit "content" and SEO gurus.)

The Web has already suffered enough at the hands of Google and Microsoft. Their search engines need to be broken up into separate entities and prevented from being "integrated" into a bully ever again.

Show threadRue MohrOct 25, 2024
@angusm these clickbait pages have been out for quite a while, long before chatgpt or any of the AI junk
Show threadLeoNerdOct 25, 2024
@angusm Given as all the search engines seem to be embracing generative AI, why would they punish others from using it?