Artificial Intelligence
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I’m starting to land on websites that appear to be entirely generated by LLMs, and it’s a disturbing hint at our future — where the web simply does not work.
Today, I’m attempting to compare two cameras that don’t get much attention these days. I search for the two models and get a list of shopping sites and on the first page I see two links that appear to blogs comparing the cameras. I expect these blogs to be mediocre but sufficient. I tap on the first two links that compare the cameras. These have been optimized to appear at top of search, after the adverts. (By the way, all the adverts pointed me to the wrong camera, a Canon with the same model number.)
https://bytebitmag.com/leica-sl2…
https://drewcaptures.com/leica-s…These two blogs look identical. That’s no coincidence. The same AI prompt probably created them, set up and hosted and optimized them without human involvement beyond a very broad initial prompt.
The effort to create 100,000 websites with this LLM content is less than the effort to write one good comparison article. Search engines can’t keep up with that. It’s an arms race between usefulness and ease... and usefulness is losing.
So what’s the real problem? These two seemingly identical websites contradict each other. Because the LLM isn’t good yet. An example: one site says dynamic range is better on the D800 and the other says dynamic range is better SL2. This could be, maybe, because there’s a Canon SL2 and a Leica SL2 and it scraped the wrong data.
It’s easy for me to see the discrepancy and keep searching until I find enough trusted resources to confirm the truth. Thats a huge headache, and RELIES ON MY ABILITY (AND DILIGENCE) TO FACT CHECK LITERALLY EVERY PIECE OF INFORMATION I READ.
That future is useless.
Perhaps search engines will learn to filter Gen AI content. But not likely, that requires one AI to be stronger than another — I don’t think this is possible over any significant period of time.
Perhaps LLMs will get better, but that will mean they not only get better at accuracy but also that the most accurate equates to the most SE Optimized. That doesn’t seem realistic. Everything in life has tradeoffs. The AI will build and ship hundreds of thousands of both sites: some accurate, some seo’d and every permissible in between. And in the end, SEO will show up first.
And you’ll never see the accurate site(s).
- Last paragraph: *mean should be *require. —— And *permissible should be permutation********
- FYI: the two links were the FIRST TWO links on the page that claimed to compare the cameras.********
- LLMs already read the whole internet for you. https://imgur.com/9V…
the web is basically obsolete in it's seo / marketing form.uan - but is (and will be) being milked for affiliate marketing as long as people trust 'websites' to make a buying choice.uan
- the 'affiliate marketing' with AI is being promoted on tiktok and x by 13years old kids. how to easy make 1000$ with AI bla bla bla :-)uan
- Show me these TikTok’s********
- Why not use search in Perplexity?
So yes, another LLM lol but good one for search
Or just "ask QBN"******** - I mean, you went and searched on google?!
Bad move my man******** - they use the 'how to use ai to make money' phrase as clickbait to promote ai services offering some special skill (video, text, image, automatisation).uan
- often you need to follow them or open their feed to get to the links, which gives them followers or engagement that translates to clickmoney for those accounts.uan
- they promote sites like https://otio.ai/ for a task and then they hack a working system. it's fast build, fast deploy and get as much traffic as possible.uan
- and I'm to old for tiktok...breaks my brain. but on x I got several of those in the For You feed (branded with tiktok vids).uan
- Dope********
- look at this...AI reading my keyboard....opened x and here is one of those instruction threads:
https://x.com/ia_wil…uan - That exact strategy created my user experience today. Absolute trash.********
- Hey Chatgpt, can you sum up this load of text into one sentence?milfhunter
- The rise of AI-generated websites optimized for SEO but riddled with inaccuracies highlights a growing problem where the internet becomes less reliable,...uan
- ...forcing users to fact-check everything while affiliate marketing exploits this chaos for profit.uan
- What AI won’t be able to summarize is the true summation of my rant: that we cannot stop this future from coming.********
- I wrote about this no long ago. Yep, we're doomed.maikel
- Last paragraph: *mean should be *require. —— And *permissible should be permutation