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Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse (www.theregister.com)
submitted 11 months ago by boem to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Except people are using LLM to generate web pages on something to get clicks. Which means LLM's are training off of information generated by other LLM's. It's an ouroboros of fake information.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

But again if you use LLMs ability to understand and generate text via a search engine that doesn't matter.

LLMs are not supposed to give factual answers. That's not their purpose at all.