I just googled something and Google put its AI summary top, which incorrectly used a Facebook post - misinterpreting it. The Facebook post itself was an AI summary of a user post - which AI had also misinterpreted. The result is the Google answer was just total bollocks.
10/10 no notes.
"Oh and did you click the little 🔗 icon to see what the source was? No, I don't trust the answer until I check that and you shouldn't too. What if it's a joke post on reddit that's taken seriously?"
@gbargoud @GossiTheDog
Yes was testing that as a possible pointer to real authoritative content - or likely not!
The thing this bullshit eclipses is the authority of the crowd we've been accessing for 20+ years w/the 1000 ranking factors from the search algos.
They're destroying their product to save their investment in compute.
The good news it's also a sign collapse is near & it will be ugly & painful & then there's the other side of chaos we get to rebuild our share worlds together. : )
I don't think I have successfully gotten anyone to do that who wouldn't have done it already but I'm definitely going to keep trying
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