[bransonf]

Bingo

It’s increasingly difficult to find product reviews with search engines.

Massive auto generated content farms take a product name and add loads of AI-generated filler text. Pop in a bunch of banner ads and an affiliate link and they have huge economic incentive to scale these operations.

I’m very pessimistic about the direction the internet is going these days. The AI crisis isn’t going to be sentient AI trying to kill us, it’s going to be a flood of noise over knowledge.

[skybrian]

Sometimes it works to add "reddit" to your search to find interesting comments. I suppose that will eventually be gamed too.

[Jorge1o1]

Until we have to start making AIs to identify knowledge and filter out noise. And then a whole cat-and-mouse game between fake news AI and fake news detection AI.

[tehsauce]

This is the exact situation we are currently in.

https://rowanzellers.com/grover/

[visarga]

The end result is more robust AI and an understanding of failure modes.