Obviously google was basically already unusable over the past five years but this is... this is something else. Any subject you want to look up will have the first three pages entirely comprised of procedurally generated fake blogs and websites. And there's nothing there. Just scraped text from articles mashed together with varying amounts of hallucinations on top. Not even selling a product, just to harvest ad revenue.
What's maybe even worse is the steady degradation of image searches too. Joe Everyman generates some slop, the image's metadata tags include a historical artist's name. Some one on pinterest pins it while trawling the web. Now there are fifty gooey generated sludge images when you look up the historical painter.
And its not just artists. Historical figures, animals too. Look up 'baby peacock' if you want a clear example of it.
It's a pretty funny bit google, I hope it keeps going.
Yeah this really sucks BTW if you can, you should probably learn how to run an LLM locally, maybe even also learn how to train one on the works of Marx, Lenin, Kropotkin, Wolff, etc..
STEP AWAY FROM THE LATHE. PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR WHERE WE CAN SEE THEM!
The idea of someone saying "Right an anti-Semitic polemic in the style of Marx and then publishing it as "the real thing" is just the nightmare I needed today.
nothing stops reactionaries from doing that today, but models trained better on Marxist works can help others read theory.