Google appears to be taking a more cautious approach with AI Overviews by prioritizing sites other than forums such as Reddit, SE Ranking found.
    • TacticsConsort@yiffit.netEnglish
      91·
      5 months ago

      Somehow this is worse than Reddit. Sure Reddit isn’t good, but at least Reddit was sane enough to understand concepts like ‘working too much is deeply unhealthy both physically and mentally’ and ‘corporations should not hold absolute power’

    • remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
      38·
      5 months ago

      There is a large collection of poorly written articles/blogs on LinkedIn, actually. They are just bad enough to be good enough for Google.

      Strangely enough, LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft. If Microsoft actually let Google use it as a data source, it was to sabotage Google’s AI training.

    • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
      681·
      5 months ago

      Reddit wisdom:

      “This”

      “Bacon”

      “OK, boomer”

      pun thread 37 levels deep

    • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      5 months ago

      I wonder how Reddit investors are feeling when they find out even Google couldn’t pull something valuable out of the Reddit data

      • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        191·
        5 months ago

        Yet I still add “Reddit” to a search query when looking for product reviews or technical/home maintenance support, lol

        I can do it really well manually…but Google’s AI sucks at it.

        They forgot to account for trolls…and how often trolls would get upvoted for the lulz

        • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
          7·
          5 months ago

          sarcasm is already hard to understand online, even harder for generative AI

          I know sometimes I would take a peek at the person’s comment history to see if they were well informed / a shill for the product. The AI can’t do that

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            7·
            5 months ago

            Generative AI doesn’t understand anything, it just adds it to it’s model. If more people are being sarcastic than genuine in the data set, that’ll be more represented in the generated text.

            AI could categorize users by competency (i.e. how often they discuss specific topics and agree with some corpus), but I doubt it does that. It’s probably just taking posts at face value.

            • Balder@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              5 months ago

              Doing that would require significantly more compute power, so there’s little economic incentive.

            • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              5 months ago

              AI could categorize users by competency (i.e. how often they discuss specific topics and agree with some corpus), but I doubt it does that. It’s probably just taking posts at face value.

              This is not being done though right? I haven’t heard anything about content ranking with connections outside of Google seemingly using authors name is articles from large news sources.

          • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            I know it’s not “intelligent”, but I don’t get gatekeeping the phrase “AI”.

            We were perfectly happy to use “AI” to refer to the logic of computer-controlled enemies in video games for probably decades.

    • Odelay42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      Unfortunately it’s pocket change for them.

      Meaningless wager that despite not paying off still probably taught them an enormous amount about reddit and its users.

      • Billiam@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        I would have taught Google everything they wanted to know about Reddit and Redditors for only $30 million.

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    5 months ago

    “wait what if someone asks a question and Google AI quickly directs that person to the most relevant resources. Now wouldn’t that be a great innovation.”

    -Some shareholder or CEO probably

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The SEO marketing platform analyzed 100,000 keywords in June and found Reddit was no longer in the top 10 linked domains in Google’s AI Overviews.

    One incident included when it told a user to put glue on pizza to keep the cheese intact — a suggestion that seems to have been based on a Reddit comment more than a decade ago.

    SE Ranking’s study also shows that LinkedIn, Wikipedia, and YouTube are in third, fourth, and sixth positions of the top 10 linked domains, respectively.

    The SEO tool provider carried out a similar study in February before Google rolled out the AI feature to the public, which found that the overviews included many snippets from forums Reddit and Quora.

    Google showed significantly fewer AI Overviews, previously called SGE (Search Generative Experience), in the June study than it did in February.

    Liz Reid, the Search VP, addressed the pizza glue fiasco at a recent all-hands meeting, according to audio obtained by CNBC, saying the company would not “hold back features” if there were “occasional problems.”

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  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    213·
    5 months ago

    Well, here’s the part where I hope people are able to make a Wikipedia alternative so we can turn Wikipedia into a cesspool to ensure the enshitification of gøøg|e. That, and if I ever get a Wikipedia article made about me (which will probably never happen), I’m signing up with an account and absolutely trashing it to say things that will cause whatever any AI looking at it to spout the most absurd shit.