Comment on AI model collapse is not what we paid for
taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoI am not talking about SEO and ranking crap. I am talking about the fact that Google e.g. decides that it is smarter than me when I say I want this exact string while searching for an error message and tries to replace all kinds of parts of it. I am talking about Google replacing terms in my search with other terms because it thinks those are more popular even though the term I used was e.g. the name of a software that is deliberately not the common word Google replaced it with. I am talking about Google replacing actual search results with AI summaries.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
I share your frustration. I went nuts about this the other day. It was in the context of searching on a discord server, rather than Google, but it was so aggravating because of the how the “I know better than you” is everywhere nowadays in tech. The discord server was a reading group, and I was searching for discussion regarding a recent book they’d studied, by someone named “Copi”. At first, I didn’t use quotation marks, and I found my results were swamped with messages that included the word “copy”. At this point I was fairly chill and just added quotation marks to my query to emphasise that it definitely was “Copi” I wanted. I still was swamped with messages with “copy”, and it drove me mad because there is literally no way to say “fucking use the terms I give you and not the ones you think I want”. The software example you give is a great example of when it would be real great to be able to have this ability.
TL;DR: Solidarity in rage