Just heard this today - co worker used an LLM to find him some shoes that fit. Basically prompted it to find specific shoes that fit wider/narrower feet and it just scraped reviews and told him what to get. I guess it worked perfectly for him.

I hate this sort of thing - however this is why normies love LLM's. It's going to be the new way every single person uses the internet. Hell, on a new win 11 install the first thing that comes up is copilot saying "hey use me i'm better than google!!"

Frustrating.

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's a huge factor, but sweatshop-written spam and SEO honeypots were destroying the web well before LLMs were a usable thing, as was Google's decision not to derank them.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is 100% correct. Sure AI might help it go faster, but “search” was enshittified to an extreme level before AI ever showed up

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So we have two problems: SEO gamification and now slopification. Expecting the same sorts of companies who let these problems become existential to fix these problems is…well, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell ya. 😂

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I don't expect a fix, heh. I expect it to be squeezed past the grave. The search-crawlable internet is burning down, and no one with power is slowing it.

    I suspect the 'web' will just get more balkanized into apps and such, and all the AI/search providers will reach into their own little silos for stuff.

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