Nina KalininaOh, NOW Google's "instead of showing you a website, we'll vibe code one for you and hallucinate the contents" kind of makes sense 🤔
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@nina_kali_nina I'm outta the loop, what's this about?
@shinmera Google is deprecating Search, more or less, they don't want to show links as a search result, and they promise to roll out AI search as the main product over the summer. This is probably relevant to Google already rewriting titles and quotes for most of the sites on the search result page.
Conveniently, classic search API is deprecated and will be shut down in 6 months.
amarioguy@nina_kali_nina @shinmera they’re already doing that?? Ughhh no wonder i’ve been seeing BS stuff in search results that don’t match the content
@amarioguy they were rewriting titles since 2012, but they apparently started to do it with AI only a few months ago, as per https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment?
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Chaddicus@nina_kali_nina the line at the end says it all: user satisfaction matters to Google more than accuracy to reality now. What particularly scares me about this is that realistically, I know that a lot of people get their news from headlines instead of actually reading the article. So what this will effectively do for those people is just pollute their understanding of the world with lies. As if we need more of that.
@wombatpandaa this reminds me... A long time ago, Yandex used to have a somewhat accurate news aggregator on its main page. "We're not responsible for the news there, we're just a mirror of the Russian segment of the Internet; the best we can do is to be as undistorted as we can" they said at first. But then people started to abuse the news aggregator (SEO ways!), and on top of that the government didn't like some of the trending news. In the end, Yandex sold the aggregator to VK (but it is still the thing one sees if they go to yandex.ru, it'll be just a redirect from there). So, sometimes it's even worse: not a problem of user satisfaction, but a problem of satisfaction of decision makers.
@nina_kali_nina very interesting, thank you for sharing! It's sad how this story is kind of emblematic of the whole search engine ecosystem.
@wombatpandaa I ultimately think that it's impossible to be a true mirror even with pure statistics distribution
@nina_kali_nina true. Computers are human constructs, after all