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- hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
- cross-posted to:
- hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up in search results, and could possibly impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use throughout history.
they’ve been indexing in this manner across the board and tbh I don’t quite follow the logic in some cases. for the pay-to-play search ranking shitsites (and other things that surface a lot of adspace) it makes a bit more sense, but for things like books…? why?
and I realize that this is pondering downstream effects of The No Fucks Given Company’s internal development processes and things, but even so