Before Google came along, most search engines were manually curated. I’m disappointed that nobody’s had any success bringing that concept back. They always cave in and take the cheap route by trying to make the general public & algorithms rate things, which of course instantly gets gamed to uselessness.
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MourningDove@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
All YouTube will be is just AI “creator” slop soon. People should be ditching that shit post-haste.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The pagerank algorithm worked fine for many years in the 2000-2010s
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It was sooooo good in retrospect.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Isn’t this a bit disingenuous to why they originally started to change the algorithm though?
People figured it out and started abusing it by spinning up proxy websites that would just link to the sites they wanted higher up in the rankings. You could argue Google only became an advertising company so that they could regulate that whilst also taking a slice.
I’m not arguing that they’ve since lost their way though.
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
SEO uses to be a fulltime job.
Nikls94@lemmy.world 1 day ago
These two comments read like Dejá-vu…
Zink@programming.dev 2 days ago
Aw, don’t you love searching for an update on something just for the algorithm to show you a low view count video that’s a mediocre computer voice talking over a barely related slideshow?
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Oh absolutely. And it’s one of the same 3 or 4 voices in every video. And not only that, but a lot of the videos themselves are AI. Check the comments… yeah. No one notices or even cares.
It’s a foregone conclusion at this point. AI going to absolutely wreck the creativity of mankind. Art will be viewed in history books, and it’s fucking sad.
quid_pro_joe@infosec.pub 1 day ago
I would recommend going to some local art faires, it will soothe your anxiety about the future (of art). I bought a small oil-on-canvas painting of a sailboat at sunset from a young artist at a recent art faire, who was thrilled to talk about art and even tried to give me the painting for free. Creating art by hand is soul-satisfying, and rest assured, my friend, it will never be replaced my AI.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
God I hope you’re right. We create such beautiful things. I’d hate to see humanity become so hollow that we stoop to accepting AI slop as art.