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.
The other day I was looking up reference for cyberpunk/noir/detective content and I kept getting results like this: https://images.app.goo.gl/dxC8Uozfv49f41q66
AI is actively making Google image search useless for the people who need it. Great work :amerikkka-clap:
It's ruined. It's all fucking ruined, and there's absolutely no off-switch. Advertisers, data harvesters, and scam artists are gonna swamp every square inch of the internet with gray blob content that only exists to mine more data, only that, a useless blob of a thing
Are you feeling liberated yet like the chatbot defenders said you would be in only a few months after the turn of the year's struggle session? :agony-minion: