https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-overviews-links-reddit-wikipedia-linkedin-se-ranking-study-2024-6
Google appears to be taking a more cautious approach with AI Overviews by prioritizing sites other than forums such as Reddit, SE Ranking found.
Somehow this is worse than Reddit. Sure Reddit isn't good, but at least Reddit was sane enough to understand concepts like 'working too much is deeply unhealthy both physically and mentally' and 'corporations should not hold absolute power'
at least Reddit was sane enough
That's the issue, a veneer of anonymity. These fucking wagies lost any sense of fear and saying the truth. Disgusting.
There is a large collection of poorly written articles/blogs on LinkedIn, actually. They are just bad enough to be good enough for Google.
Strangely enough, LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft. If Microsoft actually let Google use it as a data source, it was to sabotage Google's AI training.
Thanks! Too bad it's not more activity.
Outside of job searching, I can't stand LinkedIn, the "content" and self-promotion you see there makes me want to become a committed misanthrope.
Wonder how good Google is feeling about that 60 million dollar deal to scrape all of Reddits wisdom
I wonder how Reddit investors are feeling when they find out even Google couldn't pull something valuable out of the Reddit data
Yet I still add "Reddit" to a search query when looking for product reviews or technical/home maintenance support, lol
I can do it really well manually...but Google's AI sucks at it.
They forgot to account for trolls...and how often trolls would get upvoted for the lulz
sarcasm is already hard to understand online, even harder for generative AI
I know sometimes I would take a peek at the person's comment history to see if they were well informed / a shill for the product. The AI can't do that
Generative AI doesn't understand anything, it just adds it to it's model. If more people are being sarcastic than genuine in the data set, that'll be more represented in the generated text.
AI could categorize users by competency (i.e. how often they discuss specific topics and agree with some corpus), but I doubt it does that. It's probably just taking posts at face value.
Doing that would require significantly more compute power, so there’s little economic incentive.
AI could categorize users by competency (i.e. how often they discuss specific topics and agree with some corpus), but I doubt it does that. It’s probably just taking posts at face value.
This is not being done though right? I haven't heard anything about content ranking with connections outside of Google seemingly using authors name is articles from large news sources.
Unfortunately it's pocket change for them.
Meaningless wager that despite not paying off still probably taught them an enormous amount about reddit and its users.
I would have taught Google everything they wanted to know about Reddit and Redditors for only $30 million.
You mean... LinkedIn? If there's any site that perfects the shitpost, it's LinkedIn. Everyone is bullshitting their pants off there.
Dude, do you know how much ass I beat at my last gig? It was tremendous (parts hands away from myself).
"wait what if someone asks a question and Google AI quickly directs that person to the most relevant resources. Now wouldn't that be a great innovation."
-Some shareholder or CEO probably
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The SEO marketing platform analyzed 100,000 keywords in June and found Reddit was no longer in the top 10 linked domains in Google's AI Overviews.
One incident included when it told a user to put glue on pizza to keep the cheese intact — a suggestion that seems to have been based on a Reddit comment more than a decade ago.
SE Ranking's study also shows that LinkedIn, Wikipedia, and YouTube are in third, fourth, and sixth positions of the top 10 linked domains, respectively.
The SEO tool provider carried out a similar study in February before Google rolled out the AI feature to the public, which found that the overviews included many snippets from forums Reddit and Quora.
Google showed significantly fewer AI Overviews, previously called SGE (Search Generative Experience), in the June study than it did in February.
Liz Reid, the Search VP, addressed the pizza glue fiasco at a recent all-hands meeting, according to audio obtained by CNBC, saying the company would not "hold back features" if there were "occasional problems."
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Well, here's the part where I hope people are able to make a Wikipedia alternative so we can turn Wikipedia into a cesspool to ensure the enshitification of gøøg|e. That, and if I ever get a Wikipedia article made about me (which will probably never happen), I'm signing up with an account and absolutely trashing it to say things that will cause whatever any AI looking at it to spout the most absurd shit.