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[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 36 minutes ago) (2 children)

Yeah then people.learned how to game it and its shit now. Pointing how something worked 20 years ago does shit all for how it works now

Speak of the devil. Just a few stories down

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/835839/google-discover-ai-headlines-clickbait-nonsense

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 26 minutes ago

And LLM’s aren’t gamed? Like Grok constantly being tweaked to not say anything inconvenient about Musk? Or ChatGPT citing absurd Reddit posts deliberately made by users to make AI responses wrong?

AI is built from the ground up to do what they want, and they’re no better than those crappy info-scraper sites like wearethewindoezproz dot com that scrape basic info off every other site and offer it as a solution to your problem with [SOLVED] in the result title. “Did you turn it off and on again?”

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 34 minutes ago* (last edited 34 minutes ago)

The "people learned how to game it" is called SEO, and you're right, they did.

Guess what, there's GEO to game the results of LLMs. It works just as well, is harder to spot, and traditional SEO platforms like Ahrefs and SEMRush are already training users on how to do it.

So congrats, the argument that using LLMs for search is s good solution because people learned how to game search engines makes no sense.