Google Search has been going downhill for way longer than a few months. It’s been close to a decade now.
AI model collapse is not what we paid for
Submitted 6 days ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/opinion_column_ai_model_collapse/
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madcat@lemm.ee 5 days ago
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 5 days ago
TBF, SEO and other methodologies that game the rankings muddy the waters and make it harder to get to what you are looking for.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
That is not the problem though, Google used to just give you the results containing what you searched for, the problem started when they tried to be “smarter” than that.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Look at how they give results for youtube, maybe three relevant and then its back to suggestions.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 5 days ago
Because Google allows them to. They could easily ignore these kind of tricks but choose not to
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 5 days ago
In an AI model collapse, AI systems, which are trained on their own outputs, gradually lose accuracy, diversity, and reliability. This occurs because errors compound across successive model generations, leading to distorted data distributions and “irreversible defects” in performance. The final result? A Nature 2024 paper stated, “The model becomes poisoned with its own projection of reality.”
A remarkably similar thing happened to my aunt who can’t get off Facebook.
evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It’s such an easy thing to predict happening, too. If you did it perfectly, it would, at best, maintain an unstable equilibrium and just keep the same output quality.
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Unstable, yes. Equilibrium… no.
She sometimes maintains coherence for several responses, but at a certain point, the output devolves into rants about how environmentalists caused the California wildfires.
These conversations consume a lot of our energy and provide very limited benefit. We’re beginning to wonder if the trade-offs are worth it.
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
But could I pay for model collapse? I’d be down for that.
msage@programming.dev 5 days ago
Qu4ndo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
Could also be the AI crawler flood & the responds from website administrators 🤔
terraborra@lemmy.nz 5 days ago
It was always worthless. Or, at least, it was always worthless thinking that LLMs were a substitute for reasoning AI, which is what it appears many people have been suckered into.
thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Yeah… I have tried LLMs, and they have horrible hallucinations. For instance, when I tried to “teach” one about Hit Selecting in Minecraft, I used an example of a player that uses it (EREEN), it kept corrupting it to EREEEN. Even when I clarified, it kept doing it, forever.