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The Verge shows how Google search is useless (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 months ago by sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The Verge published this spam article about the "best printers of 2024" to demonstrate how terrible Google's search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search "best printer" on Google.

I love a good, informative troll.

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[-] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The thing is that the AI text is atrocious and vapid. It takes up a lot of space and says

"Laser printers are better in every way minus full color than inkjets, but are bigger and more expensive than inkjet printers."

The trick is that AI took 12 paragraphs and using a list incorrectly to do it instead of a sentence. And the editor calls it out for that.

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

And the editor calls it out for that.

Not disputing that. My point, tongue-in-cheek, was if an editor says "hey I'm going to pad my article with a bad AI written portion", then we lower our guard, and are more acceptive of including AI write ups in reviews.

~Anti~ ~Commercial-AI~ ~license~ ~(CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0)~

this post was submitted on 05 May 2024

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